The US brig Bainbridge capsized in the storm off Hatteras early on August 21 with the loss of eighty lives.
A ship off the coast of Hatteras, North Carolina sustained damage from a storm on August 20.
It paralleled the coast of Florida and Georgia, remaining offshore until its South Carolina landfall on the 25th as a Category 2 hurricane.The hurricane passed across North Carolina just west of Wilmington and Hatteras.
The tear was subsequently repaired and restored by sand dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Roanoke-Hatteras Indian Tribe are descendants of the historic Hatteras, Roanoke, and other Algonkian speaking Indians who occupied Hatteras and Roanoke Islands, the Outer Banks, and the mainland of Hyde and Dare Counties.
Records of single birds off Hatteras, North Carolina, on August 20, 1993, on August 8, 1998, and June 2, 2008 have all been accepted as valid North American records.
They attract patrons from neighboring areas, including Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Manteo, Roanoke Island, Hatteras, and Currituck County.
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Colonel William F. Martin of the 7th North Carolina Infantry, commanding at Forts Hatteras and Clark, knew that his 580 or so men would need help, so he called for reinforcements from Forts Ocracoke and Oregon.
The CSS Alabama then made her way to Texas to help defend the state from invasion from Gen. Banks Expedition, and fought the USS Hatteras, before escaping to the South Atlantic.
The United States Geological Survey used sand from the ferry channel to the southwest of Hatteras Island, a choice made to minimize impact to submerged aquatic vegetation and due to the channel being filled somewhat during the hurricane.
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