British Cemetery (us-north-carolina)
Type: landuse=cemetery
Coordinates: 35.11662638916367, -75.98073601626771
Area: 0.000311162109375 km²
OSM tags:
addr:city: Ocracoke
addr:postcode: 27960
addr:state: NC
addr:street: British Cemetery Road
alt_name: HMT Bedfordshire Crew 1942
ele: 01
gnis:feature_id: 1003067
heritage: 2
heritage:operator: nrhp
heritage:website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm
historic: maritime
image: https://www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=139389
inscription: These gravesites contain the bodies of four British seamen. Their ship, the armed trawler HMS Bedfordshire, sunk by German U-boat on May 11, 1942. Only four bodies were recovered. This cemetery is maintained by Ocracoke Coast Guard Station personnel.
landuse: cemetery
memorial: stone
name: British Cemetery
nrhp:criteria: (A), (C)
nrhp:inscription_date: 1990-09-28
protection_title: Public
ref:nrhp: 90001465
religion: christian
source_ref: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47720912
start_date: 1942
website: https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/missions/battleoftheatlantic2/bedfordshire.html
wikipedia: en:HMT Bedfordshire