Shipwrecks Begin to Be Documented
Prior to this time period, little was known of the shipwrecks off the coast. As newspapers began to document these wrecks more information became available about the ships, crews, and nature of the disaster.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER
Ships Sunk off the Coast - 1827 to 1846
| NAME | TYPE | DATE | PLACE LOST |
Lost Lives
|
| Cape Hatteras | Lightship | Aug. 1827 | Ocracoke |
2
|
| William Gibbons | Steamer | Oct. 20, 1836 | New Inlet |
0
|
| Premium | Sloop | Jan. 8, 1837 | Ocracoke |
0
|
| Hiram | Schooner | Jan. 19, 1837 | Wash Woods |
0
|
| Victory | Schooner | Feb. 6, 1837 | Bodie Island |
0
|
| Carroll | Brig | Feb. 8, 1837 | Cape Lookout |
0
|
| Seaman | Schooner | Mar. 5, 1837 | New River Inlet |
0
|
| Aurora | Schooner |
June 1837 |
Ocracoke |
0
|
| Hunter | Schooner | Aug. 19, 1837 | Kitty Hawk |
0
|
| Alhambra | Schooner | Aug. 26, 1837 | Bodie Island |
0
|
| William | Schooner | Aug. 29, 1837 | Cape Lookout |
0
|
| Cumberland | Schooner | Oct. 8, 1837 | Core Bank |
0
|
| Enterprize | Brig | Oct. 9, 1837 | Bodie Island |
1
|
| Hom | Steamer | Oct. 9, 1837 | Ocracoke |
90
|
| Oran Sherwood | Sloop | Oct. 29, 1837 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Wave | Schooner | Dec. 9, 1837 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Indus | Brig | Dec. 18, 1837 | Hatteras Inlet |
0
|
| Ralph | Brig | Dec. 22, 1837 | Wash Woods |
0
|
| Horse | Schooner | Jan. 31, 1838 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Pulaski | Steamer | June 14, 1838 | Off New River |
100
|
| Milledgeville | Packet | Aug. 3o, 1839 | Chicamacomico |
9
|
| Mary | Schooner | Dec. 22, 1839 | Ocracoke |
0
|
| Escambia | Brig | Mar. 25, 184o | Frying Pan Shoals |
?
|
| Flora | Ship | Mar. 28, 1840 | Frying Pan Shoals |
?
|
| North Carolina | Steamer | July 25, 1840 | Off Cape Fear |
0
|
| William J .Watson | Schooner | Nov. 15, 1840 | Bodie Island |
0
|
| Lambert Tree | Schooner | Feb. 1, 1842 | Off Ocracoke |
0
|
| American Trader | Schooner | Aug. 24, 1841 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Alonzo | Schooner | Aug. 24, 1841 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Heroine | Schooner | Oct. 1841 | Whales Head | |
| Astoria | Bark | Jan. 29, 1842 | Hatteras Inlet |
0
|
| Ashley | Brig | June 2, 1842 | Cape Fear |
0
|
| D.W . Hall | Brig | June 14, 1842 | Hatteras Inlet | |
| Trident | Schooner | June 14, 1842 | Bodie Island |
0
|
| Kilgore | Brig | Aug. 24, 1842 | Wash Woods |
0
|
| Pioneer | Brig | Aug. 24, 1842 | Ocracoke |
1
|
| Congress | Ship | Aug. 24, 1842 | Cape Hatteras |
7
|
| Leroy | Schooner | Oct. 5, 1842 | Big Kinnakeet |
0
|
| Marion | Brig | Nov. 4, 1842 | Bodie Island |
2
|
| F. A. Tupper | Schooner | Mar. 27, 1843 | Chicamacomico |
0
|
| Driver | Schooner | Jan. 17, 1844 | Cape Hatteras |
0
|
| Danube | Schooner | May 14, 184 | Bodie Island |
0
|
| McDonough | Schooner | June 13, 1844 | Kitty Hawk |
0
|
| Argon | Schooner | Dec. 1844 | Cape Lookout |
0
|
| Moon | Brig | May 8, 1845 | Nags Head |
0
|
| Victoria | Ship | Oct. 23, 1845 | Currituck Beach |
0
|
| Ontario | Bark | Dec. 1, 1845 | Diamond Shoals |
0
|
| Emilie | Bark | Dec. 3, i845 | Wash Woods |
7
|
| Regulus | Schooner | Jan. 5, 1846 | Hatteras Shoal |
0
|
| Comet | Schooner | Jan. 7, 1846 | Ocracoke Inlet |
?
|