Nancy, schooner: Totally wrecked on the New River bar on May 3, 1873, when leaving on a sailing cruise. The wind fell away and the sweeps were taken out, but the ebb tide caught the vessel’s stern, and, as she had lost steerage way, altered her course. Three heavy seas then broke over her bow and drove the schooner stern first onto the rocks. The pilot had hoisted the danger signals, but the master disregarded them. The crew were saved by means of a line thrown to them by the pilot.
