Product Details

• Format: Color, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: November 1, 1997
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• ASIN: 1888285117
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #423,946 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Spectator Magazine, December 4, 1997

Anyone who's interested in naval history or the history of NC's Outer Banks will enjoy this two-part documentary.

Product Description

The story of the Graveyard of the Atlantic is one of the most dramatic and poignant chapters in the maritime history of America. It is a legendary tale of man's travails on an unpredictable and unforgiving sea - in fact, one of the most dangerous ocean passages in the world - and how it has shaped four hundred years of history on North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Part 1 of the video series explores the Golden Age of Sail and Steam and includes many of the hundreds of shipwrecks and lives lost in North Carolina ocean waters from the 1500's to 1899. Featured wrecks are the Home (1837), the USS Monitor (1862), the USS Huron (1877) and the Metropolis (1878).

Hear about unparalleled rescues of the crews of the Ephraim Williams in 1884 and the Priscilla during the devastating San Ciriaco hurricane of 1899. Learn how shipwrecks provided a way of life, and often a means of survival for the residents of these isolated barrier islands. Interviews with native Outer Bankers relate the excitement, intrigue and compassion caused by the shouts, "Ship ashore!"

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