The schooner Irma of New York, which went ashore one mile north of Kill Devil Coast Guard Station Tuesday night, is high and dry on the beach, with only a damaged rudder, and it is believed she can be pulled off, according to information received at local headquarters yesterday.
The vessel has been taken over by the insurance underwriters, who hope to save her. The seven members of the crew are still aboard. She was commanded by Captain Charles Clausin of Long Island and was driven ashore in a gale, when she got too near the beach as the result of a compass error.
The crew was taken off Tuesday night by the crew of Kill Devel Station with beach apparatus, but they went back aboard Wednesday.
The Irma was bound from Boston to Georgetown, S.C., for a load of lumber, and was light at the time. She was built at Westlake, La., in 1917, has a length of 176.6 feet, 37.8 foot beam, a draft of 12.7 feet, and is of 614 gross tons. She is a three-master, and is an ordinarily small coasting vessel.
From the front page of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, May 1, 1925
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