AK (FBM ) 260
Photos
If you have any you would like posted,
feel free to send them to me.
It would be nice to know names,
dates, etc.
I've attached a photo of the Betelgeuse
that I took in January 1976. At the time, I was the news director
for the only radio stations on the Outer Banks of North Carolina (WOBR-AM/FM),
and we were doing a live remote broadcast about the ship. We did the
live broadcast since a group of locals had claimed ownership of the
"abandoned" ship under some ancient maritime law (they had actually tied
a rope and anchor to it. If you look closely at the photo, you'll see the
anchor line near the stern of the ship.) The salvage company who was towing
the ship to Brownsville, Texas, eventually had to pay the local group (an
undisclosed sum) to get their ship back!
By the way, the ship did not run aground
at Cape Hatteras, but in the Rodanthe/Waves/Salvo area of the beach (approximately
25 miles north of Cape Hatteras.)
Rick Harden
