Friday, February 10, 2012

Schooner O.P. Binns ~ 15 April 1882

Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882:

At 9 in the morning the crew of the schooner O.P. Binns, of New York, six in number, arrived at Station No. 23 Sixth District (Hatteras, North Carolina) and reported the sinking of their vessel during the previous night (14th), while lying at anchor inside Hatteras Inlet, at a point about five miles distant from the station. Fortunately the weather was fine and the men managed to remain on the wreck until rescued soon after daylight by a pilot named Willis who had gone out to pilot the schooner to sea, she having put in for a harbor while on voyage from Georgetown, South Caroline, to Philadelphia, with a cargo of shingles. The place where the vessel sunk was hidden from the beach by a clump of woods, which accounts for her not being seen by the station patrol. The men were hospitably sheltered and subsisted at the station for three days, or until able to obtain transportation from the beach, their vessel having become a total wreck.

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