Our Nancy Lee is reported lost in the Florida storm. She used to be called Ventey Tres, the Spanish term for 23, and she lay at the shipyard of the Elizabeth City Iron Works for four years or more. She cost $200,000 when built just after the war, for the oil trade on the shallow rivers of Mexico, but she never got there. They brought her to Elizabeth City, where she lay with her engines, capable of delivering 1,400 horsepower, idle, until the Florida boom.
The Florida interests bought her and took her to Miami after her local plant had reconditioned her into an excursion steamer for pleasure-mad Florida. She put forth out of Elizabeth City last year, a gay thing, with all colors flying. She is reported lost with her entire crew, none of whom were said to be from Elizabeth City.
The vessel was 132 feet long, with a beam of 32 feet, and drew about six feet of water. Te Florida interest got her for about $15,000. The West India hurricane that wrecked South Florida got her for less.
From page 5 of the Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Friday, Oct. 1, 1926
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