HISTORY OF CAPE HENLOPEN
AND BEYOND
ILE DE CEYLON STRANDED
OFF CAPES 1920
Wilmington Evening
Journal, Thursday August 19, 1920 : Lewes, Delaware
The five mast sailing
schooner, Ile De Ceylon, Captain, A. P. Vanhanysse, 35 days
out
from London, with a cargo
of chalk for Philadelphia stranded in thick weather one mile off
Cape Henlopen light at 10
pm Tuesday night. She is of 1023 tonnage, crew of 24, no
passengers , Van
Hemelryek of Antwerp owners.
The Coast Guard crews of
stations 139 and 140 Lewes remained with the vessel until
she was re-floated
Wednesday by a harbor tug and the Coast guard crews at the
hawsers.
After being floated the
schooner was given berth in the Breakwater. Heavy fog shut shore
lights down and the
pilot had no means of navigation aids. She was hard aground
and
in danger of breaking up
but at dawn a four foot ebb tide lifted her off the sand bar to
deep
water.
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