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  • About
    • Group tours
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    • Bonehenge Whale Center
    • Gallants
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  • Friends
    • MariTimes
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    • Online calendar
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    • Junior Sailing Program
    • Annual NC Whales & Whaling Symposium
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04 May Annual Beaufort Wooden Boat Show a hit

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The 45th Annual Beaufort Wooden Boat Show has been brought to a successful close. Picture perfect weather drew thousands to Beaufort’s downtown waterfront for the heritage boat display, which featured more than 50 powered, rowed and sail boats lining Front Street, the N.C. Maritime Museum parking...

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02 May Annual Wooden Boat Show includes kid-friendly fun

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BEAUFORT —The Beaufort Wooden Boat Show has always been a family-friendly event, and that tradition continues this year with activities geared specifically to the little ones. The 45th Annual Wooden Boat Show, hosted by the N.C. Maritime Museum, is set up along Front Street and the...

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23 Apr Annual Wooden Boat Show to feature largest collection of Barbour boats

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BEAUFORT — There was a time when boating was reserved for the wealthy. Before World War II when boats were custom made, it was an expensive hobby out of the reach of most Americans. But after the war — and its lucrative wartime contracts — ended,...

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23 Apr Turtle program features ‘The Little Turkle’

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Meet author Deborah Van Dyken and learn about her children's book The Little Turkle — which includes themes of animal conservation, marine education and enduring friendship — during an upcoming book reading and signing at the museum. Van Dyken, a Beaufort attorney and writer was...

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17 Apr Museum lines up full program schedule for 2019

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Sometimes you never know when inspiration will strike. The Beaufort Ole Town Rotary invited N.C. Maritime Museum Associate Curator Ben Wunderly to speak on the museum’s history. Wunderly spent some time researching the background and crafting a presentation for the club. And then he took it public. “I...

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12 Apr Shelton Scholars practice servant leadership during Beaufort weekend

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[caption id="attachment_2985" align="alignnone" width="300"] Town of Beaufort Mayor Rett Newton speaks with Shelton Scholars Sharpe Newton and Nick Bond during a reception welcoming the group to the town for a weekend of service.[/caption]   A group of students recognized for outstanding performance and potential spent a weekend...

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14 Feb Junior Sailing Program returns to home port

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The Junior Sailing Program is coming home. Construction on the new bridge over Gallants Channel displaced the program in 2014, moving its operations to Taylors Creek for the past five years. But with the bridge complete, Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum is working on...

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Happy Earth Day!
We hope you get out there and enjoy nature today.
Photo: marsh aster, can be found at your local salt marsh, picture by Jean Kraus.
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On this day in 1864 the ironclad CSS Neuse ran aground down river from Kinston. The Neuse was heading into battle in New Bern with hopes of re-taking the town from Union forces. After about a month the ironclad was floated off the sandbar and returned up stream to Kinston. New Bern would remain under Union control.

For more on the Neuse, visit the CSS Neuse Civil War Interpretive Center in Kinston at 101 Queen Street, open Tues. - Sat. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. You can view remains of the hull of the vessel and learn more about the technological advances related to ship design during the period.

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Are recyclable boats in our future? Maybe.
Besides, they can't all end up as flower beds or unique signs for local businesses.
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Can Boats Be Recycled?

A pilot project makes use of fiberglass discards.
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On this day in 1942 at 5:30 p.m. the Swedish tanker Agra was sunk by the German U-boat 654 roughly 350 miles east of Cape Hatteras. The tanker had left Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for Capetown, South Africa, it's ultimate destination being Alexandria, Egypt. Two torpedoes from the U-654 hit the Agra causing the vessel to sink in 3 and 1/2 minutes. It took with it to the bottom, truck parts, drums of fuel, beer, airplanes and nitrate (a common ingredient in explosives).

The captain and five crew members perished. Thirty three survivors were able to make it into lifeboats. They were questioned by the German sailors but let go. A passing Norwegian merchant ship, the Tercero, picked up the survivors and landed them at Bermuda on April 22nd.

The Agra had been spotted by two other U-boats that day, one fired three torpedoes but missed.

For a very detailed write up on the incident by author and historian Eric Wiberg follow the link below.
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M/S Agra of Sweden sunk off Bermuda, 33 rescued by SS Tercero, landed Bermuda incl 7 US volunteers April 20, 1942 - Eric Wiberg

1 – Agra The Swedish diesel motor ship Agra was built by Götaverken A/B, Göteborg (Gothenburg, Sweden), in 1925 – she was the 389thvessel built by them. In 1933 Götaverken was the busiest shipyard of the world measured in launched gross tons. The ship’s owners at the time of her demise were...
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