The G A Kohler, Outerbanks, NC 1933

The G A Kohler, Outerbanks, NC 1933

Posted by Rebekah Harris on

Off of Cape Hatteras lies the treacherous diamond shoals, and the cold Labrador stream colliding with the gulf stream like raging rivers clashing in the sea.  The resulting graveyard of the Atlantic holds many skeletons of ships.  The GA Koehler went down in a hurricane in 1933, her crew was safely unloaded.  She was burned and scrapped for iron in WW2.

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