Offshore Beaufort, Beaufort, North Carolina. County/parish: Carteret.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 31, 2015. NRIS 15000421.
Part of World War II Shipwrecks along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico MPS (NRIS 64501184).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
HMT Bedfordshire (FY141) was an armed naval trawler in the service of the Royal Naval Patrol Service during World War II. Transferred to the East Coast of the United States to assist the United States Navy with anti-submarine patrols, she was staffed by a British and Canadian crew. Bedfordshire was sunk by the German submarine U-558 on 11 May 1942 off the coast of Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, with the loss of all hands.
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