Voices from the Outer Banks by Stephen Kirk

Author:Stephen Kirk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History/US/State & Local/South
Publisher: John F. Blair, Publisher

Date: April 14, 1903, Vessel: Topaz, Cargo: Eggs and Barrels

Capsized in a squall off Rollinson’s Reef 5 miles WNW of station (in Pamlico Sound) at 4 P.M. The life-saving crew pulled to the vessel, but finding no one on board, returned to station. The next morning, accompanied by the surfmen from New Inlet station, they assisted in righting, bailing out, and temporarily repairing the capsized craft.

Date: December 11, 1904, Vessel: Montana, Cargo: Salt

Shortly before midnight, during a heavy NNW gale with thick snowstorm and rough sea, the Montana, a three mastered [masted] schooner laden with salt and carrying a crew of seven, all told, struck the beach ¼ mile N of station and 300 yards from shore. Heavy seas swept over her, and the crew, after burning a torch for help, took refuge in the forerigging[. T]he N patrol promptly reported the disaster, and keeper and crew, provided with beach apparatus, reached the shore abreast of the wreck at 12:10 A.M., the keeper having telephoned for assistance to Oregon Inlet and New Inlet stations, the former crew arriving at 1 A.M. and the latter some time later. It was impossible to launch a boat through the heavy surf, and after lighting a bonfire the life-savers placed the wreck gun and fired several lines, some of them going adrift and some to the wreck, but none in such position that the shipwrecked crew could reach it. At daylight the surfmen laid a line over the spring stay, which the crew succeeded in reaching, and after several hours of difficult work six men were landed. The seventh man, the ship’s cook, being of advanced year, was washed overboard during the night and lost. Four of the rescued men were sheltered at the station for eleven days, and two for sixteen days. The Montana became a total wreck, and was sold by the master for a small sum.

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