Steamer - A. P. Hurt
Builder:  
Built:  1860 in Wilmington, Delaware
Captains:  Capt. Alex Robinson (1896)
Specifications: steel hull; 81 tons, 118 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, 6 ft. depth; sidewheel. Apparently when the vessel was rebuilt (pre-1888), the ton was listed as 140.11 tons.
Notes: When the Cape Fear River receded suddenly in 1895, the Steamer Cape Fear was destroyed (see middle and superstructure on left) while the steel hull Steamer A. P. Hurt survived (picture at right). Below is the A. P. Hurt circa 1890.
 

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