Hatteras, North Carolina: Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
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Hatteras Village
- Address:
- 59200 Museum Drive, Hatteras, NC
- Directions:
- Drive east on US-64/264. Bear right onto NC-12. Drive south on NC-12 for 59 miles. The museum is in Hatteras Village, the southernmost community on Hatteras Island, and just south of the ferry terminal.
- Hours:
- M-F 10-4 (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 252-986-0720
- Admission:
- No admission fee, but donations are welcome.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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Fittingly stands near a spot where thousands of ships have sunk.
Roadsideamerica.com Report... [01/12/2025]Visitor Tips and News About Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum
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The Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum has a great lighthouse exhibit.
[R Mogel, 08/29/2021]
On the night of April 14, 1912, the Hatteras Weather Bureau Station (Hatteras, Outer Banks, NC) received one of the very first distress signals from the RMS Titanic just moments after it struck the iceberg. Hatteras dismissed it as a hoax. The telegraph log was later rolled up and placed into a weather station wall as insulation. The log was located again in 2005 when the weather station was restored and is now on display at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum.
[Jody High, 09/24/2020]
The Enigma machine.
[Jody High, 06/29/2017]
Museum of artifacts from different shipwrecks along the Outer Banks coastline. Also has the original light from the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. There's a gift shop on site with some very nice items.
[Etta Miller, 05/15/2014]Page of 2 [Next 1 items]
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An "Enigma" machine, devised by the Nazis to encrypt and decrypt their coded war messages, was salvaged from a U-boat wreck and is displayed in liquid (to prevent further deterioration?). The U-85, located by intercepted Enigma transmissions, nevertheless managed to sink 19 Allied convoy ships in a single 1941 engagement.