Doodlings of a drunken sailor?

[mojjax]

I bought a box of old nautical books at a garage sale a few years ago , and I've been wondering about this Navigation Note Book . It's from 1940 . The pages are full of what (I guess are sextent readings)

But, on page 2 there is a crudely drawn map , showing what looks like the location of a shipwreak . It says 'wreak became totally submerged 1730' ? (last number could also be a 6)

There is a crude drawing of a coastline showing the position of it . The larger ship-shaped drawing shows the location of the "vault" .

I roughly googled-earthed the Longitude and Lat on the page edge and it comes up just off the coast of N. Carolina . The coast line don't look right though , maybe hurricanes changed it ?

The book is chockablock full of numbers and calculations covering the span of several months .

anyone know of any old wreaks down there ?

 

[mojjax]

Another pic

 

[Blacksheep]

Not familiar at all but the book you tempt us with is way to cool!


Found this site, I`m sure you have seen this already though..

http://www.ncmaritime.org/Blackbeard/project.htm

 

[Tubecity]

The coast line don't look right though , maybe hurricanes changed it ?
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I am far from being knowledgable of ship-wreaks. But I'm about positive of a
huge storm that changed our eastern seaboard, in fact I believe that is what
created what is now Ocean City, Maryland. I would guess such storms would
affect the Outer Banks & other coastal areas. Interesting book & good luck.

 

[BioProfessor]

Just thinking that a map of a 1730 shipwreck written in a 1940 book seems odd.

Daryl

 

[trikikiwi]

Me thinks 1730 means 5:30 pm

The comment is in relation to the time of the tide.

Mike

 

[BioProfessor]

Don't ships use Nautical Time not Military Time?

Daryl

 

[trikikiwi]

Don't ships use Nautical Time not Military Time?

Daryl

How does that differ?

Mike

 

[BioProfessor]

Military time 00:00 to 24:00

Nautical Time GMT + or - 12

Daryl

 

[EggyOG]

Could the 1730' be the depth?

 

[Tony in SC]

There are several old wrecks along the Outer Banks. Silver cobs are sometimes found on the beach and by divers. Traces of old coast line can be seen as far as 15 miles out in places. As late as the 1950s outlines of sunken ships could be seen after storms. This was about the same time that the guys on the Treasure Coast in Florida started searching the wrecks for treasure. Tony

 

[DCMatt]

There are several old wrecks along the Outer Banks. Silver cobs are sometimes found on the beach and by divers. Traces of old coast line can be seen as far as 15 miles out in places. As late as the 1950s outlines of sunken ships could be seen after storms. This was about the same time that the guys on the Treasure Coast in Florida started searching the wrecks for treasure. Tony

Several old wrecks along the Outer Banks? More like hundreds of wrecks. Here are just a few.

One of my local MD buddies found an 8 Reale on the beach down there last Summer.

DCMatt

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

RGecy lives in the Carolinas. The AARG team might be interested. They specialize in Spanish shipwrecks. Why dont you e-mail him. This could be something. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,186685.0.html