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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 3
- Item 1: Clipping, Title Illegible, 1949 March 13
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot article about the wreck of the U.S.S. Huron in November, 1877. Page torn on title, "[...]a Beach [...] Linked to 'Huron' Wreck"
- Item 2: Manuscript, "Wrecks on the Dare County Beaches in Recent Times", undated
- "Introduction to a general story, appearing in The Independent, in April, 1933." This story is found in item 3: "Captain Ohlsson Doesn't Know How In The Dickens He Came to Pay a Sudden Visit to Kill Devil Hill, But He Did"
- Item 3: Clipping, "Captain Ohlsson Doesn't Know How In The Dickens He Came to Pay a Sudden Visit to Kill Devil Hill, But He Did", 1929 September 24
- Newspaper article about the loss of the ship "Paraguay".
- Item 4: Photograph, "The 'Carl Gerhard' with the Bow Section of the 'Paraguay'", undated
- Item 5: Photograph, "Capt. Ohlsson & First Officer Eberhardt", undated
- Item 6: Clipping, "Heroism of Coast Guard Recognized Officially; Swedish Vice-Consul Presents Watch and Radio", 1931 June 25
- The Advance, Elizabeth City, N. C.
- Item 7: Clipping, "Nine Years Ago Coast Guards Had A Busy Day: Twenty-four Seamen Saved From Wreck At Kill Devil Hill", undated
- Newspaper article about the loss of the ship "Paraguay".
- Item 8: Photograph, "Norwegian Medals to the "Cibao" Rescue Crew.
- Photograph depicting the rescuers of the "Cibao" Rescue Crew, with description.
- Item 9: Clipping, "Norwegian Medals and Diplomas are Awarded Brave Coast Guardsmen", undated
- Article about Norway's awarding of the "Cibao" Rescue Crew for their bravery.
- Item 10: Clipping, "Captain Coast Guard Boat Finds Work Less Exciting than in Florida Waters", undated
- Captain L. Christensen finds working in North Carolina to be less exciting than when he was stationed in Florida due to relative lack of crime.
- Item 11: Clipping, "Schooner Crew Rescued By Coast Guard In Rough Sea Off Nags Head Today", 1929 February 7
- Item 12: Clipping, "Schooner High and Dry at Low Tide Nags Head", undated
- Item 13: Clipping, "Three Mast Schooner Not Expected to Be Ever Floated Again", 1930 March 10
- "Lavinia M. Snow Represents Almost the Entire Wealth of Captain Aged 62 and His Son: Near Creeds Hill: Captain John Stevens Thought Flash From Hatteras to Be That From Cape Lookout Light"
- Item 14: Photograph, "The Creed's Hill Station", undated
- Item 15: Photographs, "Scenes Aboard The Wreck", undated
- Scenes from the wreck of the schooner "Lavinia Snow". Four Photographs
- Item 16: Photograph, "Captain Stevens with his Son and First Mate Aboard the "Lavinia Snow", undated
- Item 17: Photograph, "Boatswain Bernice Balance, of the Cape Hatteras Station, Who led the Rescue of the Crew, with him is the Caretaker of the Inactive Durants Station, Near Hatteras Village. Bn. Mate C. P. Brady.", undated
- Adjoined is a photograph of the "G. A. Kohler," whose wreck is described in the next items, "Loss of the G. A. Kohler"
- Item 18: Photograph, "Loss of the 'G. A. Kohler,' Hatteras Island," by I. P. Davis, undated
- Item 19: Photograph, "Loss of the 'G. A. Kohler,' Hatteras Island," by JCE, undated
- Item 20: Photograph, "This Surfman of Chicamacomico Tamed a Beach Pony, And Got Permission to Make his Patrols Board it", undated
- Photograph of a man on a beach pony.
- Item 21: Photograph, "The Big Kinnakeet Coast Guard Station, Near Avon.", undated
- Adjoined are two unlabeled photographs.
- Item 22: Manuscript, "Chicamacomico Coast Guard Station Has Record of Men and Ships Saved Since 1876", 1930 June 13
- The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City. Report of rescues by coast guardsmen from Chicamacomico Station.
- Item 23: Manuscript, "The 'Mirlo' Rescue", undated
- Description of the loss of the British tanker "Mirlo" on August 16, 1918, and the rescue of her crew.
- Item 24: Photograph, "The 'Mirlo' Rescue Crew", undated
- Photograph of rescue crew and description of photograph. Obituary of Capt. John Allen Midgett included.
- Item 25: Manuscript, "The Anna May Rescue", undated
- Item 26: Clipping, "The Sea Took Both After Hatteras Skipper Refused to Sell His Wife for Peck of Gold," by Aycock Brown, undated
- Item 27: Clipping, "Crewman Stood in Small Boat With Club After Barkentine Stranded at Okracoke," by Aycock Brown, 1950 December 17
- Item 28: Clipping, "The Loss of the 'S. S. Chicora,' by John Fraser Roos", undated
- Reader submission to the Christian Science Monitor about the loss of the "S.S. Chicora" on January 21, 1895.
- Item 29: Clipping, "Fort Monroe, Observing 130th Anniversary, Changed From Defense to Offense in Century," by Lloyd Parker, 1953 June 28
- Norfolk Virginian-Pilot article about the history of Fort Monroe.
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