"The Blue Book says we've got to go out and it doesn't say a damn thing about having to come back." --Captain Patrick Etheridge, USLSS
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Schooner Premium ~ 8 January 1837
The captain and two crew members were taken off the sloop Premium, en route to its home port of New Haven, CT from Virginia, by a passing unidentified vessel and landed on Ocracoke Bar. The vessel had been abandoned in a sinking condition.
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