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Smithfield
James
River
Hampton
7600
29
Chesapeake Bay
INTRACOASTAL
WATERWAY
CHESAPEAKE BAY
BRIDGE-TUNNEL
Newport.
Newsw
20
Hampton
Roads
JAMES M. VANCE, 1879
48
43
Cape Henry
CHILORE, 1942
+ WELAKA, 1889
FRANCISCO BELLAGAMBA, ITALIAN, 1878
75°00'
JOHN MORGAN, 1943-
LILLIAN LUCKENBACH, 1943
Portsmouth
•Norfolk
Virginia Beach
THOMAS F. POLLARD, 1920
LENA HUNTER, 1885
JOANNA H. CANN, CANADIAN, 1881
EMMA F. HART, 1889
H. W. RACE, 1892
PAUGUSSETT, 1886
75
SANTORE, 1942
75
Chesapeake
KINGSTON CEYLONITE, BRITISH, 1942
ALBERT C. PAIGE, 1884
a
Dam Neck Mills
AGNES BARTON, 1889
JENNIE HALL, 1900
BLANCHE, BRITISH, 1869
VOLTA 1841
71
TIGER, 1942
ELIZABETH, GERMAN, 1887
09
78
96
HATTIE DUNN, 1918
108
75°
138
32
- SPRING CHICKEN, 1944
108
Suffolk
Deep Creek
Lake
Drummond
Dismal
.Oak Grove
Great Bridge.
VIRGINIA
(165)
Swamp
NORTH CAROLINA
South Mills
APPOMATIOX
CONFEDERATE 1862
Morgans
Corners
343
NELLIE V. HOWLETT, 1903 FIGOGNA, ITALIAN, 1883
LEWIS A. ROMMELL, 1884
LEONORA, 1847
S19
CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, 1896
HORNET, 1849
CL. ALLEN, 1855
NETTIE, 1894
[AD] $3
PAN MAINE 1942
57
BACK BAY
NATIONAL
FLORENCE
SHAY, 1908
WILDLIFE REFUGE
Back By
False Cape-
GRAY EAGLE, 1888
PACIFIC, 1846
EXPRESS, 1902
EMILIE, FRENCH, 1845
TINTO, BRITISH, 1876
ADMIRAL, NORWEGIAN, 1879
STAFFA, BRITISH, 1897
2. CLYTHIA, NORWEGIAN, 1894
WILLIAM H. MACY, 1915
ARIO PARDEE, 1884
RALPH,
JOHN S. WOOD 1889
ELIZA, BRITISH.
land
MACKAY
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Sligo.
•Currituck
Great
158
Swamp-
Coinjock
.Camden
Elizabeth City
FORREST, CONFEDERATE 1862
BLACK WARRIOR, CONFEDERATE 1862
COAST GUARD
SEA, BIRD, CONFEDERATE 1862
TANNY, CONFEDERATE, 1862
Hertford
.Winfall
AIR STATION
totank R.
1837
90
1853
WILLIAM MUIR, CANADIAN, 1871
REVENUE, 1818
KILGORE, 1842
R. B. FORBES, FEDERAL, 1862
_ORAN SHERWOOD, 1837
VICTORIA, 1845
FAUGH A-BALLAGH, CANADIAN, 1873
BALTIC, 1857
A. ERNEST MILLS, 1929
lla NUOVA OTTAVIA, ITALIAN, 1876
M. A. FORBES, BRITISH, 1870
+N. BOYNTON, 1889
Currituck
Sound
GEORGIA, 1818
88
HENRIETTA PIERCE, 1853
METROPOLIS, 1878
GRACIE D. CHAMBERS, 1919
VIBILIA, CANADIAN, 1891
ORIENTE, PORTUGUESE, 1907
ADA F. WHITNEY, 1885
THOMAS J. MARTIN, 1883
HARKAWAY, BRITISH, 1885
HENRY G. FAY, 1876
MOMIE T, 1920
rth R...
159
33
Duck!
CHANSFIELD, 1860
ED. J HERATY, 1877
J. B. HOLDEN,
1903
HUNTER, 1837
90
Bark
Ghost Fleet
of the
Outer Banks
coastal
Ill-fated ships lie forever anchored in the
sea floor. For this map NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC staff member Dorothy A. Nicholson
plotted more than 500 wrecks, from the
British Tiger, sunk in 1585 in Ocracoke Inlet,
to the fishing trawler Sarah J., lost in 1961 in
Oregon Inlet. Many vessels went aground in
fog or storm. Wars took a further toll: Federal
and Confederate gunboats battled to the finish,
World War I U-boats sank many vessels, in-
cluding the Diamond Shoals Lightship,
Nazi submarines in World War Il torpedoed
freighters and tankers.
- Sloop
Schooner
Steamer
Ship
A Lighthouse
36130
and
32
Brig
+Other wrecks
Brigantine
Submarine
A Campground
Ferry
Coast Guard station
Inactive Coast Guard station
Soundings in feet
78
+SAMUEL WELSH, 1888
MOUNTAINEER, BRITISH, 1852
EMMA J. WARRINGTON. 1893
Southern ST. RITA, 1932
CHARLES 5. HIRSCH, 1905
HOUGH, 188
50
BYRON D BENSON, 1942
108
132
Sunbury.
Chowan R
20
Edenton
Alhomarlo
ying machine fifted abb
the denar Vith Hack D1002
1946. Ain't that wonderful?"
a tie on since I came out of the service in
end of the island, told me: "I haven't had
island's better days.
ago), but as a pealing requiem for the
Sunday morning-not so much as a call to
pair. He even rang the church bell each
Pigott kept clean and tidy and in good re-
One of the best preserved structures on
worship (services were discontinued long
the island is the church, which Henry
letter-sorting case.
spider webs covers the openings in the
fine. Fred Cannon, who lived alone at one
suited at least one of the five residents just
Few outsiders visit Portsmouth, and that
he cherished. In April of this year, his 16-
that he will one day return to his little pink
board and perished.
Coast Guard concluded that he fell over-
up on the beach. An investigation by the
Sound. His personal belongings washed
foot skiff was found swamped in Pamlico
take him from the island's solitude which
For Fred Cannon, only death could
house down by a swash on the island.
moved away. Mr. Pigott insists, however,
hospital on the mainland, and the others
One of the sisters died last January in a
low sounds, the three major segments of
isolated from the mainland by broad, shal-
Only 500 feet wide at some points and
401
AYCOCK BROWN COLLECTION (TOP), THE MARINERS MUSEUM, MRS A. A. RONDTHALER COLLECTION
we 19729
NATION
CANAS 73
YORK, 1942
BUARQUE, BRAZILIAN, 1942
vivor owed his life to the Lifesaving Service, which became part of the U. S. Coast Guard in 1915.
The Nomis (below) was wrecked in August 1935 with all aboard saved. Many a shipwreck sur-
to safety. Midgett's feat earned him the Gold Lifesaving Medal of Honor.
beach patrol, heard their cries. Dashing repeatedly through the towering breakers, he dragged all
overboard, the 10 men remaining awaited certain destruction. But Rasmus S. Midgett, on solitary
saving Station. After a mountainous wave swept the captain's wife, two sons, and the cabin boy
seers. Damaged in the great hurricane of 1899, the barkentine ran aground near Gull Shoal Life-
Desperate men once clung in terror to the deck of the Priscilla (above), here lined with sight-

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Chowan R
Plymouth
Sunbury.
02
Lake
Drummond
Edenton
22
Hertford
Swamp
VIRGINIA
NORTH CAROLINA
Morgans
South Mills
APPOMATIOX
CONFEDERATE. 1862
Corners
False Cape-
Knattland
MACKAY ISLAND
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Sligo.
Currituck
Great
Corolla
1581
Swamp-
Coinjock
.Camden
Elizabeth Cit
FORREST, CONFEDERATE, 1802
BLACK WARRIOR, CONFEDERATE 1862
SEA BIRD, CONFEDERATE +852
TANNY, CONFEDERATE, 1862
Winfall
Perqui
17
COAST GUARD
AIR STATION
Pak R.
STAFFA BRITISH, 1877
CLYTHIA, NORWEGIAN, 1894
WILLIAM H. MACY, 1915
ARIO PARDEE, 1884
RALPH, 1837
JOHN'S WOOD, 1889
ELIZA, BRITISH, 1853
WILLIAM MUIR, CANADIAN, 1871
REVENUE, 1818
KILGORE, 1842
R. B. FORBES, FEDERAL, 1862
ORAN SHERWOOD, 1837
VICTORIA 1845
FAUGH-A-BALLAGH, CANADIAN, 1873
BALTIC 1857
A. ERNEST MILLS, 1929
NUOVA OTTAVIA, ITALIAN. 1876
M. A. FORBES, BRITISH, 1870
+N BOYNTON, 1889
Currituc
Sound
GEORGIA, 1818
HENRIETTA PIERCE, 1853
METROPOLIS, 1878
84
plotted mo
British Tiger, sunk in 1585 in Ocracoke ne
to the fishing trawler Sarah J.. lost in 1961 in
Oregon Inlet Many vessels went aground in
fog or storm. Wars took a further toll: Federal
and Confederate gunboats battled to the finish.
World War I U-boats sank many vessels, in-
cluding the Diamond Shoals Lightship, and
Nazi submarines in World War II torpedoed
freighters and tankers.
36 30
32
Brigantine
-Submarine
Brig
+Other wrecks
-Sloop
GRACIE D. CHAMBERS, 1919
VIBILIA, CANADIAN, 1891
ORIENTE, PORTUGUESE, 1907
ADA F. WHITNEY, 1885
THOMAS J. MARTIN, 1883
HARKAWAY, BRITISH, 1885
HENRY G. FAY, 1876
MOMIE T., 1920
Bark
Ship
Schooner
Steamer
90
A Lighthouse
-Coast Guard station
A Campground Ferry
Inactive Coast Guard station
Soundings in feet
78
Duck
CHANSFIELD, 1860
Southern
ED J. HERATY, 1877
B. HOLDEN, 1903
HUNTER, 1837
MOUNTAINEER BRITISH, 1852
EMMA J. WARRINGTON, 1893
ST. RITA, 1932
CHARLES S. HIRSCH, 1908
NOUGH, 1884
+SAMUEL WELSH, 1888
BYRON D. BENSON, 1942
108
84
132
Creswell.
Pungo Lak
Phelps Lake
PUNGO
NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE
Belhaven
.Scranton
Albemarle
Sound
S
riying machine fifted abo
the sands near Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903
New
Lake
Columbia
ALLIGATOR RIVER
Fairfield.
MATTAMUSKEET
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Lake Mattamuskert
.Swanquarter
Alligator River
INTRACOASTAL
WATERWAY
NATIONAL ORIAL
Kill Devil Hills
Jockey Ridge-
-YORK,
1942
78
GERHARD, SWEDISH, 1929
WILLIAM CARLTON, 1818
BUARQUE, BRAZILIAN, 1942
IRMA, 1925
OLYMPIC, PANAMANIAN, 1942
36 00
EMULOUS, 1825
HURON, 1877
GLORY, NORWEGIAN, 1933
126
90
Nags HeadHATTIE LOLLIS, 1889
LOST COLOR
CURLEW Manteo (
CONFEDERATE
FORT RALEIGH
NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITE
Whalebong
Roanoke
Island.
Wanchese
Bodie
Island
Fort Raleigh National
Historical Site marks the
first English settlement
in the New
World, on
1862
Roanoke Island in 1585-86.
Other settlers came in 1587
PATRIOT, 1813
BAINBRIDGE, 1929
GEORGE M. ADAMS, 1897
SARAH J, 1961
HELEN
Oregon Inlet,
H
BENEDICT, 1914
HOWARD, 1846
ADAMANTINE, 1867
LAURA NELSON, 1895
44
HARRIET N. ROGERS, 1873
LAURA A. BARNES, 1921
FLORA ROGERS, 1908
HARVEST, 1825
ENTERPRIZE, 1837
J. F. BECKER, 1903
JUNE,
1899
VOUCHER, 1817
EAGLE, 1870
WALTHAM, 1874
96
_ U-85, GERMAN, 1942
North Atlantic
Ocean
114
150
-Three years later they
had disappeared, leaving
only the word "Croatoan"
carved on a stockade post.
Gibbs Point
Pamlico Sound
Engelhard
GULL SHOAL-
Cape Hatteras National Seashore (shown in green)
extends from Bodie Island to Ocracoke Inlet
Gull 18
Hatteras
Island)
77
EDWIN, CANADIAN, 1875
PEA ISLAND
NATIONAL
WILDLIFE
REFUGE
TAMARACK, 1921-
_ MONTANA, 1904
CHARLES J. DUMAS, 1911
FLAMBEAU, 1867
_ C. C. THORN, 1846
ISABELLA PARMENTER, 1925
ANNIE E. BLACKMAN, 1889
B.T. MARTIN, 1861
108
Continental Shelf
168
120
JAMES
Sandy Point
13
JOHN
WOODALL, 1896
SUE WILLIAMS, 1890
MAXWELL, 1912
GEORGE L
Rodanthe
JOSIE TROOP, CANADIAN, 1889
Waves
AMERICA, ITALIAN, 1876
MILLEDGEVILLE, 1839
Salvo HENRY NORWELL, 1896
ALFRED BRABROOK, 1899
RAYMOND T. MAULL, 1906
SE. MERWIN, 1901-
FESSENDEN,
1898
MIRLO, BRITISH, 1918
SAN DELFINO
BRITISH, 1942
MARORE, 1942
132
100
GENERAL
G. A KOHLER, 1933
LOUISE,
PANAMANIAN, 1942
SAXON, 1907
+PRISCILLA, 1899
3530
ELM CITY, 1912
-BLAISDELL, 1875
Long Point
From there, Cape Lookout National
extends southward nearly to Morehead City
Seashore
CAPE
Hogl
HATTERAS
5 G HART 1893
CILTVAIRA, 1942
POBERT W DASEY, 1899
DORMAN, 1900
CITY OF ATLANTA, 1942
132
PRCE 1892
1576
78
LULU M QUILLIN, 1917
NATION
68821
UN, 1942
CLACTON, 1820
ESKRIDGE, 1911
Hatteras Island
Frisco
SEASHORE DEN SHAY, 1889
Buxton
✓ THAMES, BRITISH, 1869
Hatteras
MARTHA, 1893
CONGRESS, 1842
+Cape Hatteras
Hatteras Inlet
Ocracoke
Island
HOME 1837
+NOMIS, 1935
GEORGE W. WELLS, 1913 CARROLL A. DEERING, 1921-
ANNA R. HEIDRITTER, 1942
✓ PIONEER, 1889
CHARMER, 1899
78
31
1942
DIAMOND SHOALS+
LIZZIE S. JAMES, 1900
_ GOVERNOR. FEDERAL, 1861
JOHN N. PARKER, 1884
CITY OF NEW YORK, FEDERAL, 1862
DIAMOND SHOALS
LIGHT STATION
AUSTRALIA
LIGHTSHIP, 1918
"Cheesebox on a raft and tin can en
a shingle,
Federal
the Monitor,
first
sailors called
ironclad
in
the Civil War
Towed by a steamer, en route to South
Carolina in
1862 the Monitor began to
swamp in a gale The steamer rescued
most of the crew, it en pent down with
the gunboat somewhere off Cape Hatteras
Pamlico River
Gum Swamp
0.
WANQUARTER
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Tales of buried treasure abound
along the Banks, a favorite haunt
of pirate Edward Teach, known as
Blackbeard The buccaneer's career
ended in 1718 when two British war-
ships caught his sloop Adventure
inside Ocracoke Inlet.
(7701)
Bluff Point
THREE FRIENDS, 1900
ANNE COMBER, 1908
MARY J. HAYNIE, 1921
++
Ocracoke
Springers Pointy
Ocracoke Inlet
Oriental
22
AYERBA
Neuse River
Morehead
City
Beaufort
Harkers
MASIDE, 1920
33
20
Portsmouth,
Island
LYDIA A. WILLIS, 1899
ALBATROSS, 1940
+TIGER, BRITISH, 1585
VERA CRUZ VII, PORTUGUESE, 1903
JOHN I. SNOW, 1907
CAPE HATTERAS, LIGHTSHIP. 1827
LUNA, 1918
✓ F. W. ABRAMS, 1942
186
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER, 1947
DE GEM
++
1912
VIRGINIA, 1923
NEW JERSEY, 1923
CEDAR ISLAND
NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE
Atlantic
Sound
10
BLANCHE, CANADIAN, 1890
78
MELROSE, 1908
AURORA, 1776
BERTHA ELLEN, 1880
66
JACOB TRUMPY, NORWEGIAN, 1879
.D. D. HASKELL, 1905
IDA C. SCHOOLCRAFT, 1902
THOMAS G SMITH, 1910
CHAS F. HAYEN, 1883
CAPE
LOOKOUT
CUMBERLAND, 1837
NATIONAL
Core
Core Banks
87
NUESTRA SIGNORA DE SOLIDAD, SPANISH, 1750
SEASHORE
(Authorized)
69
JOSEPH RUDD, 1090
96
129
Continental Shelf
✓ PROTEUS, 1918
CATHERINE M. MONOHAN, 1910
LAMBERT TREE, 1841
_ DIXIE ARROW, 1942
132
_ MALCHASE, 1942
132
NORDAL PANAMANIAN, 1942
- MANUELA, 1942
252
276
E. M. CLARK, 1942
EUGENE, 1883
OLIVE THURLOW, 1902+
ORIENT, 1908
Cape Lookout
CARROLL, 1837
LIZZIE H. PATRICK, 1911
34°39
MARTHA E. WALLACE, 1910
WILLIAM, 1837
ARGON, 1844
MONTEREY, 1851
GULF CITY, 1869
SYLVIA C. HALL, 1915
Cape Lookout
CRISSIE WRIGHT, 1886
Shoals
JAMES H. HAMLEN, 1903.
C. S. GLIDDEN, 1903
JOSEPH W. BROOKS, 1904
EA, SPANISH, 1902
THISTLEROY, BRITISH, 1911
02
PORTLAND, 1943
CARIBSEA, 1942
SARAH D. J. RAWSON, 1905
MABERLADY BAY, BRITISH, 1889
✓ ATLAS, 1942
HENRY W CRAMP, 1914
TENNESSEE, 1942
U-352, GERMAN, 1942
73
16°30'
120
52
ASHKABAD, RUSSIAN, 1942
150
132
210
150
NA TAMAULIPAS, 1942
BEDFORDSHIRE, BRITISH, 1942
LJUBICA MATKOVIC
YUGOSLAV, 1942
222
142
76000°
[AD] $100
35.00
Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell proved the vulnerability
of ships to aerial bombardment when his airmen sank
the Virginia and New Jersey-battleships marked
for scrapping-off Diamond Shoals in 1923
3630
5994
Washington, D. C.
VIRGINIA
Richmond
Petersburg.
DELAWARE
MARYLAND
INTRACOASTAL
WATERWAY
Jamestown
Norfolk
9210
Shipwreck data obtained from material compiled
by Outer Banks historian David Stick, Kitty
Hawk, North Carolina, The Mariners Museum.
Newport News, Virginia; and U S. Navy records.
Nationality of foreign ships given when known
DRAWN BY VICTOR
STATUTE MILES
NAUTICAL MILES
KELLEY, JOHN W LOTHERS AND ELIE SASHAN
COMPILED BY CHRISTINE CEMOODY AND DOROTHY & NICHOLSON
GEOGRAPHIC ART DIVISION
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
510
-SANTIAGO, 1924
76° 30°
Raleigh
NORTH CAROLINA
New Bern
Wilmington
SOUTH
CAROLINA
Georgetown
Charleston
Cape
Hatteras
AREA ENLARGED
Gulf Stream
100
STATUTE MILKY
201
400

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Desperate men once clung in terror to the deck of the Priscilla (above), here lined with sight-
seers. Damaged in the great hurricane of 1899, the barkentine ran aground near Gull Shoal Life-
saving Station. After a mountainous wave swept the captain's wife, two sons, and the cabin boy
overboard, the 10 men remaining awaited certain destruction. But Rasmus S. Midgett, on solitary
beach patrol, heard their cries. Dashing repeatedly through the towering breakers, he dragged all
to safety. Midgett's feat earned him the Gold Lifesaving Medal of Honor.
The Nomis (below) was wrecked in August 1935 with all aboard saved. Many a shipwreck sur-
vivor owed his life to the Lifesaving Service, which became part of the U. S. Coast Guard in 1915.
Roster of the wrecked, ships'
nameboards decorate a house
in Old Nags Head. Collected
over the years by the cottage
owners, most of the weathered
boards were salvaged from
vessels driven onto the shoals;
others washed in from the sea.
Snug harbor of Ocracoke offers
sanctuary to fishing boats and
pleasure craft, beckoned home
by its 146-year-old lighthouse.
Pilots who guided ships through
Ocracoke's inlet in the early
1700's founded the village.
Today ferries link it with Hat-
teras Island and the mainland.
Y.
AYCOCK BROWN COLLECTION (TOP), THE MARINERS MUSEUM, MRS. A. A RONDTHALER COLLECTION
spider webs covers the openings in the
letter-sorting case.
One of the best preserved structures on
the island is the church, which Henry
Pigott kept clean and tidy and in good re-
pair. He even rang the church bell each
Sunday morning-not so much as a call to
worship (services were discontinued long
ago), but as a pealing requiem for the
island's better days.
Few outsiders visit Portsmouth, and that
suited at least one of the five residents just
fine. Fred Cannon, who lived alone at one
end of the island, told me: "I haven't had
a tie on since I came out of the service in
1946. Ain't that wonderful?"
One of the sisters died last January in a
hospital on the mainland, and the others
moved away. Mr. Pigott insists, however,
that he will one day return to his little pink
house down by a swash on the island.
For Fred Cannon, only death could
take him from the island's solitude which
he cherished. In April of this year, his 16-
foot skiff was found swamped in Pamlico
Sound. His personal belongings washed
up on the beach. An investigation by the
Coast Guard concluded that he fell over-
board and perished.
Only 500 feet wide at some points and
isolated from the mainland by broad, shal-
low sounds, the three major segments of
401
the Outer Banks-Bodie (pronounced body),
Hatteras, and Ocracoke Islands-form a trin-
ity of subservience to the whims of the Atlan-
tic. The landscape undergoes never-ending
change. One piece of beach erodes away, and
another gains ground; drifting sands plug one
inlet, and storm-driven waves pry open an-
other; a section of bridge from which fisher-
men once dropped lines into 20 feet of water
now spans a mud flat.
Arab Ancestor Came Ashore on an Oar
One thing that doesn't change, however, is
the character of the Outer Banks and the
people who inhabit them. Marinated in some
of the richest juices of sea-oriented history,
the Banks remain charged with a flavor
unique in all the country. Only on these is-
lands is one not overly surprised to find a
descendant of a shipwrecked Arab selling
homemade fig preserves.
"He was my great-great-great-great-grand-
father, a full-blooded Arab," Harvey Wahab
told me as we sat on the screened porch of his
house, across the street from the Ocracoke
Post Office. "He was shipwrecked here in the
1700's. Came ashore on an oar."
Harvey Wahab, 67, pronounces his name
WAY-hab. "Away back, though, it was WAH-
hab," he said. "Fellow from Arabia once told
me it's WAH-hab over there."
Born on Ocracoke Island and retired from
402 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - 1990S

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ght-
Life-
boy
itary
ed all
Ksur-
1915.
LER COLLECTION
uary in a
he others
however,
ittle pink
sland.
th could
de which
ar, his 16-
Pamlico
s washed
on by the
fell over-
boints and
road, shal-
gments of
401
the Outer Banks-Bodie (pronounced body);
Hatteras, and Ocracoke Islands-form a trin-
ity of subservience to the whims of the Atlan-
tic. The landscape undergoes never-ending
change. One piece of beach erodes away, and
another gains ground; drifting sands plug one
inlet, and storm-driven waves pry open an-
other; a section of bridge from which fisher-
men once dropped lines into 20 feet of water
now spans a mud flat.
Arab Ancestor Came Ashore on an Oar
the Banks remain charged with a flavor
unique in all the country. Only on these is-
lands is one not overly surprised to find a
descendant of a shipwrecked Arab selling
homemade fig preserves.
"He was my great-great-great-great-grand-
father, a full-blooded Arab," Harvey Wahab
told me as we sat on the screened porch of his
house, across the street from the Ocracoke
Post Office. "He was shipwrecked here in the
1700's. Came ashore on an oar."
Harvey Wahab, 67, pronounces his name
One thing that doesn't change, however, is WAY-hab. "Away back, though, it was WAH-
the character of the Outer Banks and the
people who inhabit them. Marinated in some
of the richest juices of sea-oriented history,
402
hab," he said. "Fellow from Arabia once told
me it's WAH-hab over there."
Born on Ocracoke Island and retired from
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - 19905
Roster of the wrecked, ships'
nameboards decorate a house
in Old Nags Head. Collected
over the years by the cottage
owners, most of the weathered
boards were salvaged from
vessels driven onto the shoals;
others washed in from the sea.
Snug harbor of Ocracoke offers
sanctuary to fishing boats and
pleasure craft. beckoned home
by its 146-year-old lighthouse.
Pilots who guided ships through
Ocracoke's inlet in the early
1700's founded the village
Today ferries link it with Hat-
teras Island and the mainland.
G. A. KOHLER
FLORA ROGERS
JOSEPH G.RAY.
GEO.N.REED
JACKSONVILLE
KODACHROMES BY EMORY KRISTOF (N.G.S.
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