Word: pamlico
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would admit was that Squadron 5F under Lieut.-Commander Donald M. Carpenter was flying to Panama- purely routine. Few hours later the Press, already excited by the naval mobilization in Cuban waters headlined: SIX NAVY PLANES ON MYSTERY HOP. Into the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics crackled their progress-over Pamlico Sound, passing the western tip of Cuba, over Grand Cayman. Not until Panama was the nearest land would the Bureau admit that Squadron 5F was out for the world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet...
...Raleigh dispatched from England in three vessels 150 colonists, including 25 women and children, under the command of Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail for England. A fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh colony. She was the first English child born...