Shipwrecks

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  Wreck of the Olive Thurlow

  "It was a wonder that any was saved, and that those in attempting to save them was not also killed..."

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  Wreck of the Vera Cruz VII

  One of the most unusual and well-known rescues at Ocracoke Inlet. Remembered less for the wreck itself than for her cargo.

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  Rescue of the Sarah D.J. Rawson

  "You have to go out, you don't have to come back." That was the unofficial motto of the U.S. Life-Saving Service.