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  • December, 1818 — Revenue, sloop, lost off Currituck Inlet
  • December, 1844 — Argon, schooner, lost off Cape Lookout
  • December, 1853 — Rio, schooner, lost off Bodie Island
  • December 1, 1845 — Ontario, bark, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 2, 1893 — Wetherby, steamer, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 3, 1845 — Emilie, bark, lost off Wash Woods; 7 killed
  • December 3, 1852 — Magnolia, schooner, lost off Chicamacimico; 1 killed
  • December 4, 1882 — Enterprise, steamer, lost off Mauls Point; 3 killed
  • December 4, 1888 — Lena Breed, schooner, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 4, 1902 — Ida Lawrence, schooner, lost off Ocracoke
  • December 4, 1927 — Cibao, freighter, stranded off Cape Hatteras
  • December 4, 1927 — Paraguay, freighter, ran aground off Cape Hatteras; 4 killed
  • December 4, 1927 — Kyzikes, tanker, ran aground off Kill Devil Hills, 4 killed
  • December 4, 1943 — Libertad, freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-129; 25 killed
  • December 5, 1819 — Henry, sloop, lost off Currituck Inlet; 6 killed
  • December 5, 1902 — Olive Thurlow, barkentine, lost off Cape Lookout; 1 killed
  • December 4, 1902 — Wesley M. Oler, schooner, lost off Hatteras Inlet; 10 killed
  • December 6, 1885 — Nellie Wadsworth, schooner, lost off Hatteras Inlet
  • December 8, 1853 — Rattler, clipper, lost off Currituck Beach
  • December 8, 1917 — Elsie A. Bayles, schooner, lost off New Inlet
  • December 9, 1837 — Wave, schooner, lost off Currituck Beach
  • December 9, 1903 — Clarance H., schooner, lost off Cape Lookout
  • December 9, 1905 — Thomas A. Goddard, barge, lost off Nags Head
  • December 9, 1931 — Anna May, trawler, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 11, 1848 — R.W. Brown, schooner, lost off New lnlet
  • December 11, 1863 — Beauregard, blockade runner, lost off Carolina Beach
  • December 11, 1904 — Montana, schooner, lost off Cape Hatteras
  • December 11, 1917 — Lulu M. Quillin, schooner, lost off Little Kinnakeet
  • December 12, 1982 — Lois Joyce, trawler, ran aground in Oregon Inlet
  • December 12, 1910 — William H. Davidson, schooner, lost off Paul Camiels Hill
  • December 12, 1919 — Explorer, tug, lost off Nags Head
  • December 13, 1852 — Mary Turcan, brig, lost off Currituck
  • December 13, 1909 — Governor Ames, schooner, lost off Chicamacomico; 11 killed
  • December 13, 1914 — Isle of Iona, steamer, lost off Ocracoke
  • December 14, 1882 — John Floyd, schooner, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 14, 1920 — Maside, steamer, lost off Ft. Macon
  • December 16, 1942 — Louise, freighter, lost off Kinnakeet
  • December 17, 1884 — Isaac L. Clark, schooner, lost off Diamond Shoals
  • December 17, 1890 — Blanche, schooner, lost off Ocracoke
  • December 17, 1890 — Joseph H. Neff, schooner, lost off Oak Island; 1 killed
  • December 17, 1919 — Sunbeam, schooner, lost off Currituck; 18 killed
  • December 18, 1838 — Indus, brig, lost off Hatteras Inlet
  • December 18, 1971 — Maryland, tug, struck by towed barge and sunk in Albemarle Sound; 6 killed
  • December 19, 1863 — Antonica, blockade runner, lost off Frying Pan Shoals
  • December 20, 1879 — Whitney Long, schooner, lost off Creeds Hill
  • December 21, 1910 — Martha E. Wallace, schooner, lost off Cape Lookout
  • December 21, 1960 — Pine Ridge, T-2 tanker, broke apart off Cape Hatteras; 7 killed
  • December 21, 1969 — Oriental, trawler, ran aground near Oregon Inlet
  • December 22, 1837 — Ralph, brig, lost off Wash Woods
  • December 22, 1839 — Mary, schooner, lost off Ocracoke
  • December 22, 1884 — Ephraim Williams, barkentine, lost off Big Kinnakeet
  • December 24, 1864 — Louisiana, US Navy gunboat, lost off Ft. Fisher
  • December 24, 1876 — America, bark, lost off Chicamacomico
  • December 24, 1897 — Samuel W. Hall, schooner, lost off Chicamacomico
  • December 24, 1899 — Ariosto, steamer, lost off Ocracoke; 21 killed
  • December 24, 1910 — Spero, bark, lost off Hatteras Inlet
  • December 25, 1852 — Mountaineer, steamer, lost off Kitty Hawk
  • December 26, 1936 — Mount Dirfys, steamer, lost off Cape Fear
  • December 26, 1943 — Chapultepec, tanker, torpedoed by U-530
  • December 27, 1894 — Richard S. Spofford, schooner, lost off Ocracoke; 1 killed
  • December 27, 1895 — Emma C. Cotton, schooner, lost off Pea Island
  • December 27, 1904 — Northeastern, steamer, lost off Cape Hatteras
  • December 27, 1911 — Charles J. Dumas, schooner, lost off Pea Island
  • December 27, 1912 — Savannah, schooner, lost off Cape Fear
  • December 28, 1911 — Thistleroy, steamer, lost off Cape Lookout
  • December 29, 1884 — Ario Pardee, schooner, lost off Wash Woods
  • December 30, 1862 — Monitor, US Navy ironclad gunboat, lost off Cape Hatteras
  • December 30, 1867 — Francis, steamer, lost off Carolina Beach
  • December 31, 1862 — Frying Pan Shoals, Confederate lightship, lost off Cape Fear River
  • December 31, 1911 — Mary S. Eskridge, schooner, lost off Big Kinnakeet

Source: (Gentile, Stick)

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