• The Diamond Shoals are an infamous, always-shifting cluster of shallow, underwater sandbars that extend eight miles (13 km) out from Cape Hatteras, North...
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    Diamond Shoal Light is an inactive offshore lighthouse marking Diamond Shoals off Cape Hatteras. Diamond Shoals, which extend many miles out from Cape...
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    Diamond Shoal (6 May 1979 – ca.1996) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He showed some promise as a two-year-old, winning two of his six races...
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    Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71) was a lightship of the United States Lighthouse Service. She is most remembered for her sinking in 1918 during...
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  • amongst whom some are Mill Reef, Lochsong, Mrs Penny, Glint of Gold, Diamond Shoal, Gold and Ivory, Selkirk, Forest Flower, Dashing Blade, Robellino, Silver...
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    this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean...
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    After the sinking of the SS Merak by the German submarine U-104 near Diamond Shoals, North Carolina LV-71 rescued the survivors but was sunk as well shortly...
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    Frying Pan Shoals Light Station is a decommissioned Coast Guard lighthouse located near the end of the Frying Pan Shoals 32 miles (51 km) SE of Bald Head...
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    spot the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse or the Diamond Shoals Lightship and change course to avoid wrecking on the shoals.[better source needed] On January 31,...
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  • Coast Guard. November 17, 2014. Retrieved January 29, 2015. "Wreck of Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71". http://www.shipwreckexpo.com/neshipwreckvineyardlightship...
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    came at great expense to existing aids to navigation. In 1826, the Diamond Shoals Lightship, off the coast of North Carolina, slipped her moorings in...
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  • five-masted schooner, Captain W. B. Wormell, found aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 1925: December 1, SS Cotopaxi,...
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    since the Cape Hatteras Light protects ships from Diamond Shoals and should therefore have the diamond pattern. However, the daymark patterns were randomly...
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  • Retrieved October 14, 2017. "Gull Shoal Lighthouse". Lighthouse Friends. Retrieved February 9, 2021. "Report for Gull Shoal Light Station (North Carolina)...
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  • started in 1972, when it began a long association with the diamond company De Beers. The word "Diamond" was added to the race's title when permission for its...
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    Atlantic. Over 600 ships wrecked here as victims of shallow shoals, storms, and war. Diamond Shoals, a bank of shifting sand ridges hidden beneath the turbulent...
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    personnel carry injured personnel across the ship's flight deck after four personnel were rescued from the burning merchant fishing vessel, Diamond Shoal....
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    of the lost in combat was Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71. On August 6, she was patrolling off North Carolina's Diamond Shoals when she encounter a sinking...
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    previously served by lightships. An attempt to set a caisson light at Diamond Shoals off the North Carolina coast in the late 1880s showed that the techniques...
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  • August 1910 Four-masted schooner; foundered after running aground on Diamond Shoals. Central America  United States 12 September 1857 Sidewheel steamer...
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    Williamsburg Corsair IV, large yacht built for J. P. Morgan Jr. Lightvessels Diamond Shoal Lightship No. 71 (LV-71) Nantucket Lightship 66 Nantucket Lightship...
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    entrance to the channel through Croatan Sound, to the east of a marshy shoal extending from the western shore. This places it in the deepest bottom in...
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    ocean floor. An impressive array of ships have been sunk due to storms, shoals, and German U-boats during World War I and World War II. This lighthouse...
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  • away. The battle began at about 2:45 am and occurred five miles off Diamond Shoals: the Germans used their 88-millimeter deck gun and a 20-millimeter anti-aircraft...
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    five-masted schooner built in 1919, was found hard aground and abandoned at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 31 January 1921. FBI investigation...
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    whereas the highest gusts reached 74 mph (119 km/h) at Cape Hatteras. Diamond Shoal Light recorded a sustained wind of 98 mph (158 km/h) with a gust of...
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    Head Light Campbell Island Light Cape Fear Light Diamond Shoal Light Federal Point Light Frying Pan Shoals Light Hatteras Beacon Price Creek Light Roanoke...
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    Head Light Campbell Island Light Cape Fear Light Diamond Shoal Light Federal Point Light Frying Pan Shoals Light Hatteras Beacon Price Creek Light Roanoke...
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    Head Island since the 18th century to help guide ships past the dangerous shoals at the mouth of the Cape Fear river. A 10-acre (4.0 ha) site on the west...
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  • the Reef" Unknown Unknown April 28, 1961 (1961-04-28) 35 "Rescue at Diamond Shoal" Steve Sekely Story by : Edward Bernds Teleplay by : Elwood Ullman &...
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