Friday, April 20, 2012

Schooner Electric Light ~ 27 March 1886

Annual Report of the Operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886:

In the forenoon the crew of the Ocracoke Station (Sixth District) coast of North Carolina, went out and towed ashore a boat which was discovered adrift, bottom-side up, about a mile and a half from the station. It was thirty-seven feet in length, with oars and row-locks, and had a small hole stove in the bottom. It proved to belong to the fishing schooner Electric Light, of Gloucester, Massachusetts, that was wrecked by a collision at sea on March 27th. The owners were communicated with and the boat was properly cared for, subject to their order.

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