May

May 1870 — M.A. Forbes, bark, lost off Currituck Beach
May 1, 1897 — George M. Adams, schooner, lost off Nags Head
May 2, 1900 — Virginia, steamer, sunk off Cape Hatteras; 2 killed;
May 4, 1874 — Waltham, brig, lost off Bodie Island
May 4, 1943 — Panam, tanker, torpedoed and sunk by U-129; 2 killed
May 5, 1901 — Hettie J. Dorman, schooner, lost off Cape Hatteras
May 5, 1942 — Lady Drake, passenger-freighter, torpedoed and sunk by U-160; 12 killed
May 6, 1853 — Bladen McLaughlin, steamer, lost off Kitty Hawk
May 6, 1942 — HMS Senateur Duhamel, armed-trawler, collided with USS Semmes and sunk;
May 7, 1864 — Raleigh, confederate gunship, abandoned Cape Fear River
May 8, 1845 — Moon, brig, lost off Nags Head
May 8, 1862 — Oriental, federal transport, lost off Bodie Island
May 8, 1903 — Vera Cruz VII, brigatine, sunk off of Portsmouth Island; 1 killed
May 9, 1905 — D.D. Haskell, sunk off of Core Banks; 1 killed;
May 9, 1942 — U-352, submarine, depth-charged and sunk by USCG Icarus; 14 killed
May 10, 1889 — Aberlady Bay, steamer, lost off Lookout Shoals
May 12, 1942 — HMS Bedfordshire, armed-trawler, torpedoed and sunk by U-558; 37 killed
May 14, 1844 — Danube, schooner, lost off Bodie Island
May 14, 1954 — Omar Babun, freighter, ran aground off Rodanthe Beach
May 15, 1890 — Hattie S. Clark, schooner, lost off Cape Fear; 5 killed
May 16, 1861 —Oriental, steamer, stranded near Oregon Inlet
May 20, 1908 — George Weems, freighter, caught on fire and sunk;
May 22, 1896 — Glanayron, freighter, ran aground outer Diamond Shoals
May 23, 1851 — Aid Harrington, ship, lost off Caffey's Inlet
May 24, 1921 — Mary J. Haynie, schooner, lost off Ocracoke
May 25, 1891 — Vibilia, bark, lost off Poyner's Hill
May 27, 1889 — Viola W. Burton, schooner, lost off Big Kinnakeet