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To most people, the National Register of Historic Places suggests rows of stately, restored mansions from another time

It was an honorary burial at sea.

The ocean waves cause the 48-foot boat to lurch from side to side nearly 20 miles off Wrightsville Beach's shore.

Editor's note: This story is part of a four-day series highlighting the cultural, historical and economic impact of the shipwrecks along Southeastern North Carolina's coast.

The most interesting things about Civil War-era shipwrecks among the exhibits at Southport's N.C. Maritime Museum.

Range is on Historic Wilmington Foundation's 2016 list of threatened places

Years later, Hannah Block -- head lifeguard at Carolina Beach in the 1940s -- would recall the pillars of smoke out over the Atlantic Ocean.

For centuries, ships have wrecked along Southeatern N.C.'s coast