The ship was off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina a well known graveyard for ships sunk in storms.
This storm is especially notable, not so much as a very powerful hurricane but a hurricane that is exceptionally large, several hundred miles in diameter, and which has merged, or is merging with storm systems coming across North America and a high pressure system to the northeast which is feeding it energy.
I am almost 400 miles west of New York City in Ohio and we are having 50 mile per hour gusts of wind with rain and later tonight and tomorrow snow, all from this storm. Waves of 30 feet or higher are forecast on the Great Lakes and gale force winds are or will occur on each of the Great Lakes.
A 13 foot storm surge hit Battery Park on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, an all time record. Much of lower Manhattan is flooded as are several coastal communities in New Jersey, Long Island and Conn. are flooded.
Massive inland flooding is probable from 6 to 12 inches of rain as the storm moves inland.
Millions are without electricity.
A historic ferry was sunk at its pier in New Jersey and I am sure there will be others.
This is not a "normal" kind of storm.
I appreciate your comments Captain Ted.
Magogman