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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

10 hours ago

On this day in 1925 George R. Little Jr., 13yrs of age from Elizabeth City, rescued two friends from the Pasquotank River. He was later awarded the Silver Lifesaving medal on July 31 that same year.
This medal could be awarded to any person (not only uniformed) who rescues, or endeavors to rescue, any other person from drowning, shipwreck or other peril of water.
The following was printed in the Annual Report of the U.S. Coast Guard 1925. ... See MoreSee Less

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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

1 day ago

A big THANK YOU! to those serving in our Armed Forces. We appreciate your service to our country. 🇺🇸
Happy Armed Forces Day
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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

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On this day in 1886 Captain John N. Maffitt died at Wilmington. He was born at sea in 1819 while his family was crossing the Atlantic from Ireland to New England. At 5 years old Maffitt was adopted by his uncle and raised in Fayetteville. He later attended school in New York and just after his thirteenth birthday was commissioned a midshipman in the U.S. Navy, spending the first few years on cruise in the Mediterranean.

Maffitt was later assigned to the U.S. Coast Survey, mapping, charting and graphing coastlines, including Cape Hatteras, Cape Lookout, Beaufort Inlet and the Cape Fear River mouth. During the later years of the abolition movement, just prior to the Civil War, he commanded the brig Dolphin, protecting American merchant ships and capturing pirates, and slave traders in the West Indies.

In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Navy and joined confederate forces. Choosing a side was not an easy decision for him, but fearing arrest, he departed his current station at Washington D.C. and headed to North Carolina. Maffitt served as a naval advisor, Lieutenant, Captain and Commander in the Confederate Navy. After the war he left to England and commanded a British merchant steamer running between Liverpool and South America.

Maffitt later returned to the United States and spent his days on his farm along the sound near present day Wrightsville Beach. Here, along with this third wife, he wrote articles and a novel, 'Nautilus, or Cruising Under the Canvas'. Before his passing he was working on a manuscript about piracy in the West Indies. Spending most of his life at sea, Maffitt referred to himself as a son of Neptune.
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North Carolina Maritime Museum in Beaufort

2 days ago

Fish Friday!
Old U.S. Army tug boat heads to bottom for artificial reef. The US. Army vessel LT 2096 Valley Forge will be added to a current offshore site 7 miles SE of Oregon Inlet.
The 1954 108 ft 3,000 hp firefighting tug was in service for 58 years at the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point on the Cape Fear River near Southport. It will join two other tugs at AR-165, and become important habitat for marine life that supports commercial and recreational fish species.
The project was made possible by the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries and the Oregon Inlet Artificial Reef Committee. After the Valley Forge was cleaned up and towed offshore it said it's goodbyes to the above water world and went to the bottom. Here is a short video clip of the sinking. ... See MoreSee Less

Sinking of the Valley Forge

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