Download or read book Rescue on the Outer Banks written by Candice F. Ransom and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam Deal and his horse, Ginger, help an African-American lifesaving crew rescue shipwreck victims off the coast of North Carolina in 1896.
Download or read book Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks written by James D. Charlet and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama, and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the combination of mixing currents, treacherous coastline and shifting underwater sandbars spells disaster for even the most seasoned sailor. These are the stories of daring rescues, tragic failures, enduring mysteries, buried treasure, and fascinating legends.
Download or read book Fire on the Beach written by David Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Civil War to the turn of the century, this is the true-life story of the original Coast Guard and one crew of African-American heroes who fought storms and saved lives off America's southeastern coast. 31 halftones.
Download or read book Coast Guard Rescue of the SeaBreeze off the Outer Banks The On Wings of Angels written by Rear Admiral Carlton Moore USCGR (Ret) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 17, 2000, Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, performed one of the most heroic rescues in the history of the service. The cruise ship SeaBreeze I was listing, battered by hurricane-force winds and thirty-five-foot seas. The ship and the lives of its thirty-four crewmen were in imminent peril. A rescue helicopter arrived and, seeing that the vessel could capsize at any moment, hoisted twenty-six of the crew to safety, a record for a single helicopter rescue. A second helicopter, designated for the celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight, arrived on scene in time to rescue the remaining crew. Rear Admiral Carlton Moore tells the complete history of this daring rescue, including never-before-printed radio messages from the rescuers.
Download or read book Rescue Warriors written by David Helvarg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extraordinary Story Of The U.S. Coast Guard Since its founding more than two hundred years ago, the United States Coast Guard has rescued over a million people. On any given day, "Coasties" respond to 125 distress calls and save over a dozen lives. Yet despite having more than 50,000 active-duty and reserve members on every ocean and on our nation's coasts, great lakes, and rivers, most of us know very little about this often neglected but crucial branch of the military. In Rescue Warriors, award-winning journalist David Helvarg brings us into the daily lives of Coasties, filled with a salty maritime mix of altruism and adrenaline, as well as dozens of death-defying rescues at sea and on hurricane-ravaged shores. Helvarg spent two years with the men and women of the Coast Guard, from the halls of their academy in New London, Connecticut, to the frigid, storm-tossed waters of Alaska's Bering Sea, to the northern Persian Gulf, where they currently guard Iraqi oil terminals. The result is a masterpiece of adventure reporting---the definitive book on America's "forgotten heroes."
Download or read book Outer Banks Lights Out written by Alyssa Sheinmel and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original YA novel based on the hit Netflix series Outer Banks, written by New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Sheinmel, featuring JJ and John B in a brand-new, high-octane adventure—now in paperback It’s spring break in the Outer Banks, and the islands are swarming with rich tourists. The last thing JJ and John B want to do is spend their week watching Kooks in action, so they plan a fishing getaway to the notoriously dangerous Frying Pan Shoals—nicknamed “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for good reason. Turns out they aren’t the only adventure-seekers at sea. Soon after they set sail, the friends run into the captivating Savannah, who hitches a ride aboard the HMS Pogue when the weather worsens and her boyfriend leaves her stranded. As a violent storm sets in, the three realize the only place to safely ride out the squall is a creepy, abandoned hotel on the shoals’ lighthouse platform. Or is it abandoned? It doesn’t take long for the three teens to realize they may not be alone. . . . Further complicating the life-or-death adventure is a mounting attraction between JJ and the secretive Savannah—the closer JJ gets to her, the more he realizes he’s playing with fire. Even if they get out of the shoals alive, can a Pogue–Kook romance survive the high-stakes shores of the Outer Banks?
Download or read book Storm Warriors written by Elisa Carbone and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island at the end of the 19th century is far from quiet. The other island residents include the surfmen--the African American crew of the nearby U.S. Life-Saving Station--and soon Nathan is lending an extra hand to these men as they rescue sailors from sinking ships. Working and learning alongside the courageous surfmen, Nathan begins to dream of becoming one himself. But the reality of post-Civil War racism starts to show itself as he gradually realizes the futility of his dream. And then another dream begins to take shape, one that Nathan refuses to let anyone take from him.
Download or read book Into the Burning Sea written by Kevin Duffus and published by . This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about a day in August 1918 when the ocean off Rodanthe, North Carolina, was ablaze. The day when 51 British merchant sailors desperately struggled to escape their tanker loaded with gasoline after it had been torpedoed by a German U-boat. The day when six courageous Coast Guardsmen, tossed by waves of fire in a small boat, entered the hellish dark and deadly inferno of explosions and toxic fumes and navigated a confusing maze of swirling black smoke, imperiling their lives to rescue strangers in distress. It was the day when American lifesaving history was made.
Download or read book The Spanish Mustang of the Outer Banks written by Jerry Costanzo and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Will and Orv written by Walter A. Schulz and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a windy day in Kitty Hawk, N.C. in 1903, the Wright brothers attempt to make history as they prepare the "Flyer" for the world's first engine-powered flight.
Download or read book The Daring Escape of Ellen Craft written by Cathy Moore and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells of the daring escape of a slave couple in 1848, with the woman, Ellen Croft, posing as a white man, and her husband posing as the man's slave.
Download or read book Graveyard of the Atlantic written by David Stick and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1989-07-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling record of storms and stress, of cruel seas and shifting sands, of broken ships, tragedy and gallantry is set down in this set down in this book......
Download or read book Nora s Wish written by Norine Khalil and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora was a little girl, A girl who knew she could. She knew she'd one day change the world, And change the world, she would. Join Nora on her journey to change the world - one girl, one wish, at a time. Nora is quirky, she is undeniably herself, and she is the hope, strength and determination the world needs today, more than ever.
Download or read book Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater written by Charles Harry Whedbee and published by Blair. This book was released on 1966 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of Virginia Dare, Theodosia Burr, Blackbeard, and the witch of Nags Head on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Download or read book Between Tides written by Angel Khoury and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping 1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the Chatham Beach Lifesaving Station to start a new family far to the south, at Cape Hatteras. 1940s: His daughter, en route to serve in World War II with the Red Cross, travels to Cape Cod where she meets his first wife, Blythe, reanimating a life she had long buried: memories of her courtship, her bitter losses, and her husband's slow-motion vanishing. Set on two wild seascapes, Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, Between Tides is a lyrical novel for readers of Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, and Marilynne Robinson--a story of two women stitching together a family ripped at the seams and discovering that even through absence, love's presence is everlasting.
Download or read book The U S Life Saving Service written by Ralph C. Shanks and published by Costano Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled Heroes, Rescues and Architecture of the Early Coast Guard, this very complete record of the people, technology, architecture and exploits of the U.S. Life-Saving Service is a large-format book illustrated with 446 photographs and maps. It is especially strong on the wonderful and regionally varied architecture of the Service's stations, of which there were more than today's mariners or beachcombers can imagine -- 41 on the New Jersey coast, 31 on Lake Michigan, 13 on Cape Cod alone. In the last half of the nineteenth century, when coasting vessels numbered in the tens of thousands, the stations and their beach patrols were a necessity, and the surfmen managed dramatic rescues, many of which are recounted here.
Download or read book Outer Banks Piracy II written by Shirley Mays and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Shirley Mays' second book. She is a North Carolina real estate broker and an environmental consultant. She has a Research Center at the Cotton Exchange in Wilmington, North Carolina, A Coast Guard City. She lost her son Jeffrey. He was only 21. He went fishing one day, 16 miles offshore Cape Hatteras in the Gulf Stream and just simply disappeared. International drug dealing had been reported in the area and she feels that somehow Jeffrey placed himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was without a doubt a little fish in a huge pond. The United States Coast Guard conducted one of the largest searches ever on the East Coast. Shirley has waged a fight against corruption and drug dealing for the last 29 years. She hates the environment that surrounded her only son that fateful day. The same environment is prevalent throughout the nation. It is destroying families everywhere. While pursuing this search for Jeffrey, she became quite a good investigator and researcher and eventually became a Whistleblower with the largest case against government fraud ever filed in the nation. Her qui tam case involved political corruption and drug dealing and was covered up by the judicial system at the highest levels of government. Her discovery involves over 400,000 properties from the first big Savings and Loan bailout. The FDIC falsified much of the information, including the federal ID numbers, in order to block the trail of value. She has the FDIC's official databases to prove it.
