Into the Burning Sea: the 1918 Rescue of the Mirlo
Asheboro Public Library 201 Worth St, Asheboro, NC, United StatesHistorian Kevin Duffus to recount harrowing Outer Banks rescue in Asheboro library talk During World War I, on August 16, 1918, the German submarine U-117 torpedoed the British freighter S.S. Mirlo off the Outer Banks of North Carolina. As the freighter sank, six courageous Coast Guardsmen of the Chicamacomico Lifeboat Station at Rodanthe sped to […]