Blakeley · shipping board
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 150–151 · No. 927
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- Item 1: 'am' is handwritten above the line between '9.' and '+ 12 m.'.
- Item 19: '500 tons.' is written over an erased word.
- Running number written sideways in left margin.
Form header
- Running number
- 927
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 14, Port of Norfolk, Virginia
- Received
- U.S. COAST GUARD. RECEIVED MAR 5 1920 · 5 Mar 1920
- RECEIVED AT N.Y. FEB. 17 1920 · 17 Feb 1920
- Vessel name written at top
- —
- Other numbers
- —
- Stamps on the form
- SHIPPING BOARDAT SEAOTHER CAUSES
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Blakeley · SS., American
- 6 · Official number
- 218285
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross, 2887 Net 1731
- 4 · Age or year built
- one year.
- 5 · Port registered
- Seattle
- 7 · Master and residence
- Thomas Davies Seattle
- 8 · Owner and residence
- United States Shipping Board
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- Sunday Nov 2^d 1919. between 9. am + 12 m.
- 24 · Locality
- Lat. 45° 59' N Long 16° 38' W.
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Swansea (Wales) Oct 30th 1919. → Hampton Roads
- 27 · Weather
- Heavy SE Gale (70 miles per Hour) & cross seas.
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, 45 crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $ 700.000
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Main Discharge pipe, seperating from condenser & Hull & bending of Hand steering gear shaft
26 · Cause, as written
Ship working in sea-way, Rolling heavy
Signature
- Signed by
- W Thomas Davies · Master
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- Feb 14th 1920
- Place
- Norfolk
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Verbatim from the form. Item labels are approximate; the printed wording varies by year.
- 1 · Date of casualty
- Sunday Nov 2^d 1919. between 9. am + 12 m.
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American SS. Blakeley. Wood
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross, 2887 Net 1731
- 4 · Age or year built
- one year.
- 5 · Port registered
- Seattle
- 6 · Official number
- L.R.P.Q. - 218285
- 7 · Master and residence
- Thomas Davies Seattle
- 8 · Owner and residence
- United States Shipping Board
- 9 · Sailed from
- Swansea (Wales) Oct 30th 1919.
- 10 · Bound for
- Hampton Roads
- 11 · Passengers
- none
- 12 · Crew
- 45
- 13 · Persons lost
- none
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $ 700.000
- 15 · Value of cargo
- —
- 16 · Cargo
- In Ballast
- 17 · Deck load
- No.
- 18 · Overladen
- No.
- 19 · Cargo weight
- Ballast 500 tons.
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- $ 1700.00
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- none
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- —
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- —
- 24 · Locality
- Lat. 45° 59' N Long 16° 38' W.
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Main Discharge pipe, seperating from condenser & Hull & bending of Hand steering gear shaft
- 26 · Cause
- Ship working in sea-way, Rolling heavy
- 27 · Weather
- Heavy SE Gale (70 miles per Hour) & cross seas.
- 28 · Measures taken
- Kept ship before the wind & sea.
- 29 · Assistance
- None Except ships crew.
- 30 · Remarks
- Ship not having sufficient Ballast