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  Destroyer USS Ellis, pictured here in late 1943, was one of two US destroyers escorting KS-520, which enjoyed the protection of 5 naval escorts: two destroyers, two Coast Guard cutters, and one Canadian corvette on loan to the US government. Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

Stalking the Grey Wolf
A Battlefield Analysis of the Largest Naval Action off North Carolina During the Second World War: KS-520 Convoy Battle.

John Bright
BS Biology, East Carolina University

MA Candidate, East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies
Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011



 Charlotte reporter Julian Scheer braves the wreckage in front of a burning house in Carolina Beach (Hugh Morton; North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, UNC Chapel Hill.)

Scattered to the Wind: An Evaluation of the Disaster Landscape of Coastal North Carolina

Jennifer E. Jones

BA Anthropology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

MA Historical Archaeology, University of York

MA Candidate East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies

Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011

 

 

Rasmus Midgett sitting on the wreck of Pricscilla (Image: Outer Banks History Center).
Ship Ashore!  The Role of Risk in the Development of the United States Lifesaving Service and Wrecking Patterns along the North Carolina Coast. 
 

Joshua Marano
BA History and Coastal Studies, East Carolina University
MA Candidate, East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies
Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011






1970s photograph of remains of a ship-breaking site (Photograph: Bob Browning c.1970).
For the Love of Profit: Examining Traditional Capitalism on Eagles Island, North Carolina

Robert Minford
BA History, University of Maryland, College Park
MA Candidate, East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies
Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011

 

 


ECU students talking to visitors about “O’Keefe” Site on Currituck Beach, NC, 2010 (Image: East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies).The value of maritime archaeological heritage: Understanding the cultural capital of the shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Atlantic

Calvin Mires
BA (with Honors). Latin and Classical Civilizations, University of Montana
MA, East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies
PhD candidate, East Carolina University Program in Coastal Resources Management
Anticipated Completion: Fall 2011




 

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