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Shrimper w/Hatteras
Lighthouse
(1/2 Gal. Bottle)
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These medium-sized wooden and/or steel boats ply the Pamlico Sound trawling for shrimp and various species of commercially valuable fish. During storms and heavy weather dozens of these boats may often be seen seeking refuge in Ocracoke's Silver Lake.
Shrimper w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (1/2 Gal. Bottle)
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SS Minnow (1/2 Gal. Bottle)
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Named by the show's producer Sherwood Schwartz for 1961 FCC's chairman Newton Minnow-who called TV "America's vast wasteland". Ther were actually 4 Minnow boats used on the show. #1 was used in the stranded beach scenes, #2 was a rental used in Honolulu Harbor opening scenes, #3 was seen leaving the Harbor in the opening, & #4 was a built set prop used in the lagoon scenes.The boat was originally built in Carson, NY and can be viewed at the Schooner Cove Marina in Vancouver.
Sinbad's Meka II w/Cape Lookout Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built by her captain, Horatio Sinbad in 1967, the 54 ft. brigantine carries six cannons and is a licensed privateer. The scourge of many events, conflicts and races, the Meka II won the Americas' Sail race in Montego Bay, Jamaica in 2002.
Hattie Creef w/Ocracoke
Lighthouse (325 ML Bottle)
Design of a work boat of the NC Sounds. The Elizabeth City-based Creef carried the Wright Brothers to Kitty Hawk. She converted to steam in 1904.
Hattie Creef
w/Cape Lookout
Lighthouse (325 ML Bottle)
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Hattie Creef
w/Hatteras
Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Hattie Creef
w/Wright Flyer (1 Gal. Bottle)
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Design of a work boat of the NC Sounds. The Elizabeth City-based Creef carried the Wright Brothers to Kitty Hawk. She converted to steam in 1904. The Wright Flyer had a wingspan of 40 ft., length of 21 ft. & a 12 horsepower motor. First successful powered flight on December 17, 1903. On the 4th trial flight, Wilbur covered 852 ft. in 59 seconds.
Windfall w/Ocracoke
Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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The traditional two-masted schooner "Windfall" sails from Ocracoke's Silver Lake most days during the summer months.
Windfall
w/Stand (1/2 Gal. Bottle)
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The traditional two-masted schooner "Windfall" sails from Ocracoke's Silver Lake most days during the summer months.
Windfall Model
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The traditional two-masted schooner "Windfall" sails from Ocracoke's Silver Lake most days during the summer months.
Shad Boat-NC's
State Boat (750 ML Bottle)
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Developed in the 1870's on Roanoke Island by George Washington Creef. Named after the fish, Shad boats were 22 ft - 33 ft. long and made of cypress, juniper, or white cedar. During the Depression construction of the Shad declined due to the expense though were in wide use into the 1950's. In 1987 the NC General Assembly named the Shad the State's Boat.
Crissie Wright (1.75 Ltr. Bottle)
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During a winter storm on Jan. 11, 1886, the Crissie Wright's captain decided not to brave Diamond Shoals & steered for Cape Lookout Light. When entering the harbor, the mainmast brace parted & the ship drifted broadside on to the shoals where she was broached by every wave. Unable to launch rescue boats in the storm, local residents watched as the crew were swept overboard. The following day, rescuers found 3 men frozen in the jib sheets. The only survivor died a year later-unable to recover from his ordeal.
Barkentine Mozart w/Hatteras Lighthouse (1.5 Ltr. Bottle)
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Launched on 2/29/1903 in Greenock, Scotland, Sister ship was the Beethoven. The rig was a compromise between power & economy. Through her life she was owned by German, Finnish, Italian, & Norwegian investors. In 1920 she was given up by Germany as WWI compensations. Broken up in England in 1935.
Addie Henry w/Hatteras Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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The 78 ft long Addie Henry plied the Atlantic Coast for over 30 years carrying Southern lumber to New England Shipyards. She wrecked off Ocracoke 4/14/1895.
Addie Henry
w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Amistad w/Hatteras Lighthouse (375 ML Bottle)
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Built in Mystic, Conn. in 2000, the ship is slightly longer than the original 120 ft. Amistad. Her mission is to educate the public on the history of slavery, discrimination, & civil rights.
Blackbeard's Adventure
w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (1 LTR. Bottle)
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The fast, shallow draft "Bermuda" sloop was popular with many pirates. A gift from Teach's pirate mentor Benjamin Hornigold in 1717, the 8-10 gun sloop was on all of Blackbeard's exploits. After the grounding of the Queen Anne's Revenge, Blackbeard arrived in Bath, NC & was pardoned by Gov. Eden. In mid-summer of 1718, the Adventure was officially placed in Teach's name by the Vice Admiralty Court in Bath Town, NC for trading expeditions. Falling into his old pirate ways, Teach captured a French sugar ship & the cargo was split with NC court officials. Blackbeard was killed at Ocracoke Inlet by Lt. Robert Maynard on Nov. 22, 1718 by order of the Virginia Governor.
Blackbeard's Adventure
(1 GAL Bottle)
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Charles Vane's Ranger
w/Ocracoke Lighthouse
(1.75 LTR. Bottle)
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The 12-gun Ranger was the flagship of Charles Vane from May 1718 to Nov. 1718. Blockading Charleston as Blackbeard had done several months earlier, Vane, with two sloops, captured an African slaver coming into port. This larger ship he named the Ranger. In late Nov. 1718 while in the Windward Passage, Vane was charged with cowardliness by the crew for refusing to attack a vessel that was more heavily armed than the Ranger. The vessel turned out to be a French Man of War disguised as a merchant to deal with pirates. Vane & his supporters were set in a small boat, and after some time, Vane captured another sloop and continued "the sweet trade" until being caught in Jamaica in March 1720. Ouartermaster "Calico" Jack Rackham was voted captain of the Ranger. Later Calico Jack had onboard the two female pirates Mary Reade & Anne Bonny. The ship was lost a few months after Calico Jack took command due to hull rot. The pirates then aquired a sloop and were caught in Sept. 1720.
Ranger w/Stand
(1 Gallon Bottle)
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Mercury w/Stand (1 Gallon Bottle)
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75 ft.on deck, 6-8 cannons, 29 crew, Ocracoke Station. Built in Ocracoke, NC. In the Revenue Service until 1807 when she was placed in the navy. On July 11, 1813, Captain William H. Wallace sighted British Admiral Cockburn's invasion flotilla off Ocracoke Bar. Wallace collected Portsmouth's custom money, bonds, and Agent Thomas Singleton and out sailed 3 British ships to successfully warn New Bern. Admiral Cockburn retired since the surprise was thwarted. Mercury returned to Revenue Service after 1814 & was retired/sold out of service in 1820. The Mercury was used in Dreamworks Film "The Lovely Bones".
Carrol A. Deering w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Ghostship of Diamond Shoals. Built: Bath, ME; L=255 ft; W=44 ft, 2114 tons capacity. Sighted off Diamond Shoals, NC with all sails set on 1/31/1921. Mysteriously, no one was on board & all boats were gone, though food was set on the table. Believed to be set adrift by a mutinous crew, rum runners, or pirates before a storm. Jinxed by (1) being launched on a Friday-4/4/1919, (2) christened with flowers, & (3) had cats-the only two survivors.
Carrol A.
Deering w/Hatteras Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Carrol A.
Deering w/Hatteras Lighthouse (1.75 LTR Wine Bottle)
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Carrol A.
Deering w/Hatteras & Ocracoke Lights (1 Gallon Antique Wine
Bottle)
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Ghostship of Diamond Shoals. Built: Bath, ME; L=255 ft; W=44 ft, 2114 tons capacity. Sighted off Diamond Shoals, NC with all sails set on 1/31/1921. Mysteriously, no one was on board & all boats were gone, though food was set on the table. Believed to be set adrift by a mutinous crew, rum runners, or pirates before a storm. Jinxed by (1) being launched on a Friday-4/4/1919, (2) christened with flowers, & (3) had cats-the only two survivors.
Yacht America
w/Hatteras Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built in New York in 1851. Sold to British interests in 1852 & renamed Camilla. Sold to Confederacy in 1861 & used as a blockade runner called Memphis. Carried CSA ambassadors to England. Scuttled in 1862 & raised by the Union-used as a blockader. Training vessel at Annapolis 1866-73. Last race in 1901. Collapsed in a shed in 1942.
Yacht America w/Ocracoke
Lighthouse (1 Liter Bottle)
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Snap Dragon w/Lookout Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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85 ft. on deck, 25-100 crew, originally the ZEPHYR. Preeminent 1812 Beaufort, NC based privateer captained by Otway Burns. His 3 Atlantic coast cruises captured 42 ships valued at $4 million & defeated British ships of equal size. Burns retired & was a state legislature. Burnsville, NC is named for him.
Snap Dragon
w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (1.75 LTR Bottle)
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Snap Dragon
w/Lookout Lighthouse (1 LTR Bottle)
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Snap Dragon
w/Stand (1 Gallon Bottle)
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Yacht Puritan
(750 ML Bottle)
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Launched may 26, 1885. Designed by Edward Burgess who incorporated both English & American cutter characteristics. Captained by John Malcom Forbes. Forbes defeated the English cutter Ginesta in two races in the 32nd America's Cup. Ginesta designer John Beaver-Webb refused to allow anyone to see the ship before the race and started this secrecy tradition that continues to this day.
Sallie Bissell w/Hatteras Lighthouse (1.75 LTR Wine Bottle)
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Based in Charleston, the Sallie Bissell made regular runs to NC & VA ports. On March 4, 1895 while bound for New Bern with a load of phosphate, she grounded at Ocracoke Inlet. Capt. Henry Gredick & crew were saved. The vessel was beat over the shoal & sank with the flood tide.
Silver Cloud w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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The Rum Runner Silver Cloud was built in Thunder Bay, Ontario in1899. Used by the Kennedy Family in the 1930's to run whiskey. Used by a missionary in the 1950-70's to deliver eye glasses to Jaiti, yet he died a mysterious death. Used in drug smuggling in the 1980's. Currently the oldest trading schooner in the Caribbean.
Virginia Dare w/Hatteras Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built in 1919 in Newcastle, Maine by Newcastle Shipbuilding Co. Registered in New York, NY by owner Amos D. Carver, she was mastered by Capt. Haskell. The Dare carried southern lumber to the Maine shipyards as well as phosphate from the Caribbean to New England. She wrecked off New London, CT during a storm on Jan. 17, 1930.
Queen Anne's Revenge w/Stand (3 LTR Bottle)
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Built in 1919 in Newcastle, Maine by Newcastle Shipbuilding Co. Registered in New York, NY by owner Amos D. Carver, she was mastered by Capt. Haskell. The Dare carried southern lumber to the Maine shipyards as well as phosphate from the Caribbean to New England. She wrecked off New London, CT during a storm on Jan. 17, 1930.
Queen Anne's
Revenge w/Stand (1/2 Gallon Bottle)
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Built in 1919 in Newcastle, Maine by Newcastle Shipbuilding Co. Registered in New York, NY by owner Amos D. Carver, she was mastered by Capt. Haskell. The Dare carried southern lumber to the Maine shipyards as well as phosphate from the Caribbean to New England. She wrecked off New London, CT during a storm on Jan. 17, 1930.
Queen Anne's
Revenge w/Stand (1 Gallon Bottle)
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Built in 1919 in Newcastle, Maine by Newcastle Shipbuilding Co. Registered in New York, NY by owner Amos D. Carver, she was mastered by Capt. Haskell. The Dare carried southern lumber to the Maine shipyards as well as phosphate from the Caribbean to New England. She wrecked off New London, CT during a storm on Jan. 17, 1930.
Anna R. Heidritter w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built in Bath, Maine as the Cohasset, she burned to the waterline Jan. 22, 1907 while in Baltimore Harbor. Rebuilt in Maryland as the Heidritter, she was re-launched in 1910. She survived a U-boat attack in WWI & carried bullets in her masts from the encounter. While carrying log wood from Charleston to Pennsylvania, she hit a storm off Ocracoke & was washed on a bar May 2, 1942. With her back broken, the crew lashed themselves to the masts. All were saved. Captain Coleman died in a car accident in NJ 9 days after being rescued.
Wright Flyer w/Stand (1/2 Gallon Bottle)
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Wingspan: 40'4", Length: 21', Height: 8', Empty Weight: 605 lbs, Flying Weight: 750 lbs, Motor: 12 hp-4 cylinder-Wright designed between 10:30am & noon on December 17, 1903. The historic first four powered flights were made at Kill Devil Hills, NC. The 1st flight lasted 12 seconds & covered 120 ft with Orville. The 2nd flight covered 175 ft & the 3rd flew 200 ft. Wilber on the 4th flight covered 852 ft in 59 seconds. The flyer was awarded a patent in 1906.
Schooner
Virginia w/Stand (1
Gallon Bottle)
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LOA: 122 ft, Beam: 24 ft, Draft: 12 ft, Sail Area: 6438 sq. ft. Commissioned in June, 2005, the Virginia is a replica of a 1917 pilot schooner that bore the same name. Representing her home state, the Virginia serves as a sail training and educational vessel.
USCG Eagle w/Stand (Antique 1
Gallon Bottle)
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Length: 266 ft, Width: 40 ft, Draft: 17 ft, Sail Area: 22,245 sq. ft. Built in 1935 in Hamburg, Germany as the training ship Horst Wessel, with sister ships: the Gorch Fock, the Sagres, & the Mircea. She was included in reparations paid to the U.S. following WWII. President Kennedy had the USCG chevron installed on her. She is a sail training ship for the USCG & based in New London, CT. Seventh U.S. ship to bear the name Eagle. Features Morris Island Lighthouse and Cape Hatteras Lighthouse.
Elizabeth II w/Stand (1
Gallon Bottle)
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Commissioned by Great Britian's Princess Anne to celebrate the 400th anniversary of England's first New World colonization attempt. The Elizabeth I, captained by Thomas Cavendish, was in Sir Walter Raleigh's second fleet to Roanoke Island. The seven ship Fleet, under Sir Richard Grenville, landed 108 colonists at Roanoke in July, 1585 with scant provisions. Grenville's ship, the Tiger, wrecked in a storm while entering the Ocracoke Inlet. Many supplies, including the important farming seeds, were lost. The Tiger was saved. Led by Ralph Lane the colony survived about a year when rescued by Sir Francis Drake's fleet in 1586. A supply ship arrived to the deserted colony two weeks later.
Black Squall w/Ocracoke Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built 1856 in Pembroke, Mass., built by Joseph Wilder, 191 tons. While en route from Cuba to NYC with a load of sugar & circus ponies, the Black Squall wrecked at Ocracoke Inlet on April 8, 1861.
Ephraim
Williams w/Hatteras Lighthouse (1.5 LTR Wine Bottle)
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The 491 ton Williams was loaded with lumber bound from Savannah to her home port of Proviedence, R.I. when she encountered a storm off Frying Pan Shoals. Lifesavers from the Cape Hatteras & Creeds Hill stations rescued the crew of 9 on December 22, 1884. Rescuers claim that it was the worst seas that they had ever seen. Seven Gold Livesaving Medals for exceptional bravery were awarded to the rescuers.
Margaret
from
Pepsi Sail w/Lookout Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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One of the last Edwardian Era yachts, the Margaret became legendary by surviving a NE gale off Nantucket. Presumed lost, she limped into Ocracoke with all hands on board 20 days later. Restored in 1996, she & her sister, Cock Robin 2, have been featured in Wooden Boat Magazine.
Phoenix
from
Pepsi Sail w/Lookout Lighthouse (750 ML Bottle)
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Built in 1984, the Phoenix is a replica of cargo vessels plying the Long Island Sound. She serves as a training vessel for the Long Island, NY U.S. Naval Sea Cadets.