"offshore" as preposition?

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is another relevant example of "offshore" in the 1940s, I think.
Submitted for evaluation by the professionals.

Date: May 5, 1946
Newspaper: Times-Picayune
Article title: All Outdoors
Artcle author: Arthur Van Pelt
Page: 27
Column: 2
Newspaper location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Database: GenealogyBank

[Begin excerpt]
Captain Hector Landry,
fishing with Max Gaudet, Bob
Stansbury, Don Terry and Adolph
Folse made an excellent catch of
speckles at Grand Isle while Mur-
phy Crosby, fishing with Harold
Meyers and a party took 135 spec-
kles. Captain Landry reports plen-
ty of tarpon just offshore the is-
land.
[End excerpt]

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:51 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Date: June 18, 1942
> Newspaper: State Times (State Times Advocate)
> Article title: Lt. Robt. Taylor Hurt in Bombing Of Midway Island
> Page: 1
> Column: 3
> Newspaper location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
> Database: GenealogyBank
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> Lt. (j. g.) Robert Connel Tay-
> lor son of Mr. and Mrs. D. H.
> Taylor of this city, is recuperat-
> ing at the naval hospital at Pearl
> Harbor from wounds received dur-
> ing the bombing of Midway pre-
> ceding the great air-naval battle
> offshore the island, a letter re-
> ceived by his parents today dis-
> closed.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Ben Zimmer
> <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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>> Poster:       Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at BABEL.LING.UPENN.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: "offshore" as preposition?
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>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:34 AM, Pat O'Conner wrote:
>>>>
>>>> My husband (Stewart Kellerman) and I wrote a post about the
>>>> prepositional use of "offshore" May 9  for our blog, Grammarphobia.com.
>>>> It notes that according to the OED and M-W Collegiate, the prepositional
>>>> use is fairly recent, dating from the mid-1960's.
>>>> Link: http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/offshore-of.html
>>>
>>> A bit earlier...
>>>
>>> 1961 Leon Wolff _Little Brown Brother_ 39 What with Dewey in the
>>> Orient grimly preparing for war, and the _Maine_ resting at anchor
>>> offshore Havana, one might assume that things had gone from bad to
>>> worse.
>>>
>>> 1961 _Ibid._ 57 The Spanish fleet was not sighted offshore Manila, and
>>> the Americans turned westward toward Cavite.
>>>
>>> 1961 _Ibid._ 106 For eight endless days, unable to debark, his
>>> expedition sat offshore the Tambo beach.
>>>
>>> http://books.google.com/books?id=hHzvx94oiUgC
>>
>> Snippet view, but it seems to check out:
>>
>> 1955 _Gas Age_ 29 Dec. 37 The Offshore Gathering Corporation, with
>> headquarters in Houston, Texas, announced through its President, Mr.
>> David C. Bintliff, that the company has filed an application with the
>> FPC for a certificate of necessity to build a submarine gas pipe line
>> offshore the Coast of Louisiana from the Sabine River to the coast of
>> the state of Mississippi.
>>
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=K-NQAAAAYAAJ
>>
>> --bgz
>>
>> --
>> Ben Zimmer
>> http://benzimmer.com/
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