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Drone photography of Figure Eight Island facing western NC A house under construction in 2016. In 1954 Hurricane Hazel hit the East Coast and destroyed much of the development from Myrtle Beach up to Topsail Beach, with more than 15,000 homes and structures destroyed and another 39,000 homes damaged.
The Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach is rebranding with a new name, according to a press release from Castle Peak Holdings. The historic resort property dates to 1964 and had ...
Mistaken for a blockade runner and rammed by USS Monticello off Kure Beach. [6] Pevensey Confederate States: Blockade runner, sank off Atlantic Beach. Phantom Confederate States: 1863 Steel-hulled blockade runner; sunk at Topsail Inlet. USS Pilgrim United States: 1935 Patrol vessel that was scuttled off Harkers Island as a breakwater.
USS Granite City was a Confederate blockade runner steamer captured in March 1863 by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was armed with cannon and by August 1863 was in service as a gunboat in support of the Navy blockade of Confederate waters. She was recaptured in January 1864 by Confederate forces, again became a blockade ...
The blockade runner then stranded on the beach where her crew burned her to prevent capture. Boats from Nita took her next prize, schooner Three Brothers, 11 April, at the mouth of the Homosassa River after a chase of three hours. The schooner had been attempting to slip into the river laden with supplies from Havana.
Banshee, a 533-ton (burden) side-wheel steamship, was built in Liverpool, England, in 1862 for employment running the Federal blockade of the Confederate coast. Her transatlantic maiden voyage, in April 1863, was a "first" for a steel-hulled ship, though her innovative construction proved troublesome in service.
The current Johnnie Mercer's Pier is made of reinforced concrete and still stands today. A second pier was constructed in 1938 by Floyd Cox and named the Mira Mar Fishing Pier. It was built on top of the wreck of the Fanny and Jenny, a Confederate blockade runner that ran aground during its maiden voyage in the Civil War in 1864. The wreckage ...
On the evening of 4 November, USS Howquah sighted blockade runner Margaret and Jessie and pursued her through the night. The next morning, Nansemond and Army transport Fulton – who had joined in the chase – captured the notorious runner at sea, east of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina .