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By Laura Nebuchadnezzar
Collection Overview
Title: Ship Stories Around the North Carolina Banks Scrapbook, 1877-1954, undated
ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-105
Primary Creator: Unknown
Extent: 3.0 Folders
Arrangement: Arranged in the original order of the scrapbook pages. The numbers on the paper inserts within the folders do not correspond to the item number in the finding aid.
Date Acquired: 11/24/2014
Subjects: Carroll A. Deering (Schooner), Dictator (Bark), Hatteras Island (N.C.), Huron (Screw steamer), Ocracoke (N.C.), Outer Banks (N.C.), Ships, Shipwrecks, United States. Coast Guard, Virginia Beach (Va.)
Forms of Material: Clippings (information artifacts), Photographs, Postcards
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Scrapbook pages that include newspaper clippings and photographs concerning ship stories on the North Carolina Outer Banks.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Sargeant Memorial Collection
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
Use Restrictions:
The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Source:
Unknown
Preferred Citation:
Ship Stories Around the North Carolina Banks Scrapbook, MSS 0000-105, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
Processing Information:
Processed September 1, 2015. Completed September 4, 2015.
Other Note:
This collection is housed in Box 2 of the Wilmer Willis Houston Papers (MSS 0000-025).
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 2
- Item 1: Clipping, "Wreck of Schooner Richard S. Spofford", 1950 April 14
- Article about the wreck of three-masted schooner "Richard S. Spofford," near Ocracoke Life-Saving Station, North Carolina on December 26, 1894.
- Item 2: Clipping, "Wreck of Schooner, Francis E. Waters", undated
- Newspaper article about the wreck of schooner "Francis E. Waters" near False Cape, North Carolina, on October 23, 1889.
- Item 3: Clipping, "Wreck of Schooner Nellie Wadsworth, Hatteras, Dec. 5, 1895", 1949 April 1
- Item 4: Clipping, "Wreck of Barkentine Priscilla, August 18, 1899", 1949 July 2
- Newspaper article about the wreck of barkentine "Priscilla," near Gull Shoal Station, North Carolina, on August 16, 1899.
- Item 5: Clipping, "Wreck of the British S. S. Virginia. May, 1900", 1949 April 8
- Article about the wreck of British ship, "Virginia," near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 2, 1900.
- Item 6: Clipping, "Wreck of Schooner Nellie Porter, Apr. 1888", 1949 July 15
- Article about the wreck of schooner "Nellie Porter," on April 8, 1888 near Ocracoke Station, North Carolina.
- Item 7: Clipping, "Three Wrecks off North Carolina Coast in November, 1887", 1949 July 15
- Article about three shipwrecks at the North Carolina coast in November, 1887. The destroyed ships include Elizabeth City's schooner "Fox," and sloop, "Frog," as well as a surfboat from Hatteras, called "Thomas Hunt."
- Item 8: Clipping, "Wreck of The Olive Thurlow, Dec., 1902", 1950 March 24
- Newspaper article about the wreck of American barkentine "Olive Thurlow" on December 5, 1902.
- Item 9: Clipping, "Wreck of the Schooner Leonora", undated
- Newspaper article about the wreck of the 458-ton schooner "Leonora," which occurred in December 1907, southwest of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
- Item 10: Clipping, "Wreck of the Barge Saxon, Oct. 12, 1907", 1949 April 22
- Newspaper article about the wreck of "Saxon," A 555-ton barge, on October 12, 1907.
- Item 11: Clipping, "Lighthouses at Hatteras", 1948 July 30
- Item 12: Clipping, "Account of Two Wrecks of 1888", undated
- Article about the shipwrecks of the "Viola W. Burton," and the "G. W. Bentley" in 1888.
- Item 13: Clipping, "Deering Mystery Goes Into 30th Year: Hatteras Keeps Secret of Lost Schooner Case", 1951 February 4
- Virginian-Pilot article about the "Carroll A. Deering," A five-masted schooner that stranded in Diamond Shoals, North Carolina.
- Item 14: Clipping, "The Sea Keeps its Secret of the Schooner Carroll A. Deering: Sails Set on All 5 Masts and Not One Soul Aboard", 1950 March 5
- A Virginian-Pilot article about the mysterious "Carroll A. Deering," a schooner found with its human crew missing after its wreck. Reverse of scrapbook page contains a newspaper clipping of a song about the loss of the U.S.S. Huron.
- Item 15: Manuscript: "Loss of the Huron: Spot News Story", 1877 November 28
- Item 16: Clipping, "Wreck of the Huron at Nags Head was Famous Disaster 72 Years Ago", 1949 June 24
- Article about the wreck of the ship "Huron" in the Coastland Times, Manteo, N. C. Newspaper page containing article is attached to item 15, between second and third pages of the manuscript.
- Item 17: Clipping, "The Wreck of The Huron in '77", 1953 November 22
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot article about the tragedy of the U.S.S. Huron's wreck off the North Carolina Coast in November, 1877, including a poem based on a love letter thought to have come from the ship's wreckage.
- Item 18: Clipping, "The Awful Tragedy: The Ill-fated Huron Makes Her Last Cruise", 1877 November 26
- Landmark Extra: Newspaper article about the wreck of the U.S.S. Huron, published two days after the incident.
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