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34466
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In February 1905, the schooner SARAH D.J. RAWSON wrecked offshore of the Cape Lookout Life-Saving Station on route to New York City with a cargo of lumber. The article details the rescue of the crew, for which the Life-Saving personnel received Congressional recognition.
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36014
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Of personal interest to the author were also items of historical interest. Up close and personal was the view that he offered of sunken ships, as well as the marine life that lived around them. As visual illustration was a map locating the wrecked watercrafts, which included a German submarine. Accompanying the map was a brief description of each: an old boiler, LST#741, Richmond, Kyzickes, Zane Gray, U-85, and York.
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Shipwrecks--Outer Banks; Submarines (Ships); Oregon Inlet--History; Marine fauna; Marine science; Liberty ships; Corolla; Duck (N.C.); Kitty Hawk; Kill Devil Hills--Description and travel; Hatteras Inlet--History; Nags Head--History; Manteo; Wanchese; Rodanthe--Social life and customs; Hatteras Island--History; Ocracoke Island--Description and travel; Ocracoke--History; Portsmouth Island--History; Ocracoke Inlet--History
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7820
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The Honduran freighter, OMAR BABUN, came ashore on the Outer Banks on May 14, 1954, about three miles north of the Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station in Rodanthe. In this SEA CHEST interview, Ed McLeod recounts the story of the last breeches buoy rescue on Hatteras Island, how the ship was unloaded, and what finally happened to the vessel.
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9249
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On November 23, 1877, the USS HURON sailed through North Carolina waters on its way to the West Indies. The ship was caught in a terrible storm and ran ashore in the middle of the night. Of the 132 crew members, only thirty-four survived. Wreckage of the HURON can still be seen on the Outer Banks near Nag's Head.\r\n
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36009
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Touted as the first four-masted schooner to wreck on the Outer Banks, the George A. Kohler, was destroyed not by the hurricane that had washed it ashore, but the second buyer of its remains. Its value at that time could be measured in the dollars exchanged for its scrap iron and steel. Its present and intrinsic value can be seen in speculations of a shipwreck eight miles from Avon being the sunken schooner.
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35482
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A victim can be the Central America, a ship that an oceanographic atlas and US Navy wreck list had tried to locate. Victim can be defined by the loss of 482 human lives. In this case, victim directly alluded to the loss of gold. Approximately $600,000 of this precious metal—in the form of coins, dust, and nuggets—was jettisoned by the crew into the sand clouded briny deep.
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35565
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An aerial view of the Outer Banks offers sights like the Cape Hatteras lighthouse and Wild “Banker” Ponies. The treasures not viewable by the naked eye lie in the briny deep: remains of Spanish galleons, colonial brigantines, Confederate steamers, WW I freighters, and U-boats.
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35934
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A continuation of the series begun in Sea Chest’s first edition, this collection of journal entries mostly chronicled the meteorological conditions between September 1874-July 1879. Wedged between daily reports of barometric pressure were occasional ones of ships setting sail and their minor damages. Rare reports were of loss of life from shipwrecks and drownings.
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10809
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In February of 1750, a fleet of five Spanish ships heavily loaded with silver and spices sailed from Veracruz, the collection point of the Spanish Empire in the New World, to Havana. From there, the ships were to sail for Europe, but were instead wrecked by gale force winds along the coast of North Carolina. The EL SALVADOR, the NEUSTRA SIGNORA DE SOLEDAD, and three unnamed vessels were lost at various points on the Carolina coast, ranging from Topsail Island, to Ocracoke, Hatteras, and New Currituck Inlet.
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The sinking of the ship, HOME, on Oct. 9, 1837 created a court case and a ruling that has implications into the 1960s. The entire Croom family drowned when the ship sank. The Croom family members argued for 20 years over who died first since the inheritance depended upon who lived the longest. The case ended with the common calamity decision that stated that all family members are declared to have died at the same time.
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20420
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Last September's hurricanes uncovered the remains of several vessels that had been buried in the and for many years on the state's Outer banks. The wrecks stretch from Hatteras Island down to Ocracoke. As usual it is a fleeting exposure as winds and sand again begin to cover the wrecks. Among the most interest are the ghost ship, the Carroll A. Deering; the Aristo, a British tramp steamer sunk in 1899; and the George W. Wells, the first six-masted schooner ever built, and at that time the largest wooden vessel afloat. She went down in 1913, and her remains had been buried on Ocracoke for a long time.
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37679
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Newspaper articles on shipwrecks in 1831, 1833, 1869, 1878.
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