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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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On January 6, 1895, as weather conditions deteriorated, the schooner “Hester A. Seward” of Baltimore, Maryland made a run for Hatteras Inlet. The vessel hit an outer bar hard, sustaining enough damage to eventually sink. The six crew members of “Hester A. Seward” were rescued by a pilot boat that was waiting to guide the vessel in. A crew from the U.S. Life-Saving Station Durant met the pilot boat and transferred the men to their sail powered rescue craft. They were brought to the station on Hatteras Island where they were taken care of for several days. A crew from the U.S. Life-Saving Station Ocracoke was able to salvage most of the vessel’s cargo of wood shingles. Image: Copy of the thank you letter from master and mate of the Hester A. Seward. Image: The Durant Lifesaving Station, built in 1878, was originally named “Hatteras.” but because of confusion with the station at Cape Hatteras, its name was changed to Durant in 1883. ... See MoreSee Less

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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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Coastal North Carolinians have celebrated “Old Christmas” with “Old Buck” either on January 5 or the first Saturday of January for over 250 years. “Old Christmas” began when Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752 to replace the Julian Calendar. The new calendar made Christmas fall on December 25th instead of the old date of January 5th. Many communities, including those along the Outer Banks, rebelled against the change and kept the old date to celebrate Christmas. In the 1870s the Outer Banks added a unique aspect to their celebration called “Old Buck.” Coastal communities have a reputation for being a superstitious lot and according to tradition a ship loaded with cattle sank in a storm off Cape Hatteras in the 1870s. The only survivor was a black and white bull that swam ashore at Rodanthe. Named “Old Buck,” the bull was locally loved and became legend. Image: Old Buck throws off a rider, circa 1940s. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). Image: Rider sits on “Old Buck,” circa 1940s. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). Image: Young children ride “Old Buck.” (Image courtesy NC State Archives). ... See MoreSee Less

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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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Fish Friday!On January 27, 2020, the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries’ Artificial Reef Program sank “American” off the coast of Pea Island. “American” was an 88-foot tugboat built in 1951 by the Chesapeake Marine Railway Company of Baltimore for the Consolidated Gas and Electric Company of Baltimore. It was the first of three vessels plus 7,000 tons of concrete pipe used to create a new reef site about 7 miles south of the Oregon Inlet sea buoy off Dare County. DMF completed the project in partnership with the Oregon Inlet Artificial Reef Committee, Artificial reefs are manmade underwater structure, typically built to promote marine life in areas with a generally featureless bottom. In North Carolina, they serve as crucial spawning and foraging habitat for many commercially and recreationally important fish species. N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries currently maintains 43 ocean artificial reefs and 25 estuarine artificial reefs. Image: Sinking of the towing vessel “American.” (Courtesy NC Div. of Marine Fisheries). ... See MoreSee Less

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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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On December 31, 1862, USS “Monitor,” while under tow to Beaufort, foundered and sank during a storm off Cape Hatteras. “Monitor” went down at roughly 1:30 a.m. Forty-seven men were rescued by lifeboats from the towing vessel, U.S.S. “Rhode Island,” and 16 sixteen of the crew were lost. Earlier that year on March 9 it engaged in battle with the opposing ironclad CSS “Virginia” at Hampton Roads, the first meeting of two ironclad vessels. Image: "The Wreck of the Iron-clad 'Monitor’.” Line engraving published in Harper's Weekly, 1863. (Image courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command). Image: "Loss of the 'Monitor' in a Storm off Cape Hatteras,” December 30th, 1862. (Image courtesy U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command). ... See MoreSee Less

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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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In the 1920s, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Edna Ferber would visit North Carolina multiple times while researching and working on her new novel “Show Boat.” Ferber’s story surrounding a river showboat was based on the time she spent on the James Adams Floating Theatre in Bath, North Carolina. During Ferber’s trip to North Carolina in April 1925, she not only visited but lived, played, worked, rehearsed, and ate with the theater company on the theater boat, gathering inspiration and stories for her novel. Ferber’s novel would later be adapted by Oscar Hammerstein, who worked with fellow composer Jerome Kern to turn it into a groundbreaking Broadway musical of the same name. The musical “Show Boat” premiered on Broadway on December 27, 1927, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. Image: The James Adams Floating Theatre on the Pamlico River in Washington, 1940. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). Image: Stage manager and actor Daile Herlit applies makeup before a performance. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). Image: Floating theatre’s captain mans the ticket booth. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). Image: One of the theater troupe’s actresses fishes in the Pamlico River while the James Adams Floating Theatre was docked in Washington, 1940. (Image courtesy NC State Archives). ... See MoreSee Less

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