LANCING (shipwreck)

Address Restricted, Buxton, North Carolina. County/parish: Dare.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 26, 2013. NRIS 13000451.

Part of World War II Shipwrecks along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico MPS (NRIS 64501184).

1 contributing site.

From Wikipedia:

SS Lancing

SS Lancing was a Norwegian whale factory ship, originally the British merchant ship Knight Errant. The ship passed through a number of owners, being named Rio Tiete, Omsk, Calanda, and Flackwell at different stages in her career. She was sunk off Cape Hatteras on 7 April 1942 by the German submarine U-552.

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