Wilmington, N.C., Jan. 9 (AP)—The three-masted schooner Alfred R. Hedlet, bound to Wilmington from the Barbadoes with a cargo of molasses, was today reported aground on Frying Pan Shoals, south of here. Advices said the schooner was “leaking and pounding badly.” The tug Blanche has been sent to the rescue.
The schooner went aground yesterday during the gale which swept the coat of this section. She is commanded by Captain H. Hynan, and has a crew of eight men.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Jan. 9, 1926
The Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear, are formed by silt from the Cape Fear River. The shoals are over 28 miles long and resemble a frying pan in shape. Part of the “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
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