From DiveBuddy.com They also have a map of Cape Lookout wrecks.
15 April 1942, the HMT Senateur Duhomel tows the American tanker Harry F. Sinclair, Jr, to Morehead City, N.C. after torpedoed and damaged 11 April 1942, by the U-203, seven nautical miles off Cape Lookout.
In 1944 the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant blasted the wreck of the Senateur Duhamel, sunk by the USS Semmes, with two tons of dynamite as it was considered to be a navigational hazard. The cutter also dragged the wreck to remove any remaining high spots afterwards.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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