![]() The area suffered the most casualties from U-boat attacks of any along the East Coast. Forced to hug the coast to avoid wrecking on a shoal, the vessels were sitting ducks to lurking German U-boats. What makes the museum’s new Operation Drumbeat exhibit such a unique venue for telling the story of “Torpedo Junction” - as wartime ship captains dubbed Cape Hatteras - is that the museum’s location encompasses the area that experienced the war at its front door.Ĭape Hatteras was targeted by U-boats because its shipping lane was close to the deep water of the continental shelf where the subs could hide. Opened in 2002 on the south end of Hatteras Island, the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum is focused on four centuries of Outer Banks’ maritime and shipwreck history. “Most people have no idea that this ever happened.” “I envision the Battle of the Atlantic exhibit to eventually be the signature exhibit for the museum,” Joseph Schwarzer, director of North Carolina Maritime Museums, said in an interview June 29 during opening day of the exhibit that memorializes the U-boat campaign from a local perspective with many artifacts salvaged from Outer Banks waters. Learn how you can be in the Sponsor Spotlight When you purchase a North Carolina Coastal Federation license plate, you help keep our coast healthy and beautiful.
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