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Graveyard of the Atlantic : shipwrecks of the North Carolina coast / by David Stick with illustrations by Frank Stick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, [1952]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807867098
  • 9780807867099
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Graveyard of the Atlantic.DDC classification:
  • 910.45
LOC classification:
  • VK1273.N6 S7 1952eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Outer Banks 1526-1814 -- Shipwrecks become news 1815-1838 -- The steam packet Pulaski 1838 -- The toll mounts 1838-1860 -- Ironclads and blockade runners 1861-1865 -- Catching up on lost trade 1866-1877 -- The Huron 1877 -- The Metropolis 1878-1893 -- The long day of Dunbar Davis 1893 -- Shipwrecks as a business 1893-1899 -- San Ciriaco 1899 -- From sail to steam 1899-1918 -- Unguarded shores 1918 -- Peacetime enemy 1919-1941 -- The U-boats return 1942-1945 -- The romance is gone 1946 -- Vessels totally lost on the North Carolina Coast.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters--the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.

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The Outer Banks 1526-1814 -- Shipwrecks become news 1815-1838 -- The steam packet Pulaski 1838 -- The toll mounts 1838-1860 -- Ironclads and blockade runners 1861-1865 -- Catching up on lost trade 1866-1877 -- The Huron 1877 -- The Metropolis 1878-1893 -- The long day of Dunbar Davis 1893 -- Shipwrecks as a business 1893-1899 -- San Ciriaco 1899 -- From sail to steam 1899-1918 -- Unguarded shores 1918 -- Peacetime enemy 1919-1941 -- The U-boats return 1942-1945 -- The romance is gone 1946 -- Vessels totally lost on the North Carolina Coast.

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This is a factual account, written in the pace of fiction, of hundreds of dramatic losses, heroic rescues and violent adventures at the stormy meeting place of northern and southern winds and waters--the Graveyard of the Atlantic off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

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