by Kathy Carter, 2006
The USS Huron remains one of the most famous shipwrecks in North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic." A man-of-war steamer, the Huron ran aground off Nags

The wreck happened just two miles from one of seven lifesaving stations erected on the Outer Banks in 1874, but it occurred after the lifesaving season of the summer and fall had ended; observers on the beach could do little more than watch the Huron's destruction. Mourned nationally, the tragedy led to reforms in the U.S. Lifesaving Service, including extension of the lifesaving patrol season and construction of additional lifesaving stations along North Carolina's coast and elsewhere. The remains of the vessel lie submerged off Nags Head.