The Wreck of the Irma…As Told through the Eyes of a Budding Young Author

By Kip Tabb February 21, 2020 February 20, 2020

When the three-masted schooner Irma ran aground in Kill Devil Hills in 1925, she became one of a popular site …

Laura A. Barnes Shipwreck

By Kip Tabb February 7, 2020 January 29, 2020

The listing in the July 1921 issue of Marine Review about the Laura A. Barnes is a single line reading …

By Kip Tabb January 25, 2020 January 22, 2020

The ride to Hatteras Island as it passes through Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge has a beauty that is not …

By Kip Tabb December 19, 2019 December 11, 2019

The sinking of the Catherine M Monahan doesn’t carry with it the excitement of a daring rescue during a hurricane …

By Kip Tabb December 17, 2019 December 10, 2019

Reginald Fessenden is a largely forgotten figure in the history of radio. Not necessarily on the Outer Banks where some …

By Kip Tabb December 12, 2019 December 10, 2019

Over the years—the many years— that Outer Banks has been a place of numerous firsts. We thought it would be …

By Kip Tabb November 27, 2019 November 29, 2019

We don’t think of the Outer Banks as a remote place. Admittedly part of its charm is that there are …

By Kip Tabb October 28, 2019 October 28, 2019

It can be difficult trying to find information about what really happened on the Outer Banks in WWII. It’s certainly …

By Kip Tabb October 4, 2019 October 4, 2019

World War II was a terrifying time along the Outer Banks in 1942. A narrow predictable shipping lane along the …

By Kip Tabb September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019

Joachim Gans is not a well-known name. Maybe that will change because a highway marker was just dedicated to him …