Chesley #5 · foundering
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 199–200 · No. 950
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Form header
- Running number
- 950
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 30 , Port of Seattle, Washington
- Received
- COAST GUARD RECO JAN 23 1921 ANS'D · 23 Jan 1921
- Vessel name written at top
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- Other numbers
- Page 109
- Stamps on the form
- PACIFICTOTAL LOSSFOUNDERING
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Chesley #5 · Scow, American
- 6 · Official number
- 166792
- 3 · Tonnage
- 46 Tons Gross & Net
- 4 · Age or year built
- 5 years
- 5 · Port registered
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Seattle - Washington- [illegible mark struck through] Seattle [written below struck through mark] Seattle [written on original line again] [illegible symbol or letter] [handwritten text is quite messy… - 7 · Master and residence
- X
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Chesley Tug & Barge Co
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- Fall of 1918
- 24 · Locality
- Smith Cove - Seattle Harbor
- 9–10 · Voyage
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X → Seattle Harbor X [there is an X mark before or after Seattle Harbor, hard to tell. Actually it looks like it is on line 9. Line 9 is X, line 10 is Seattle Harbor. Wait, line 9 is X. Line 10 is Seattle… - 27 · Weather
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- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, no crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $400 00
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
The scow was rented out to a city and in use when it disappeared one night during wind storm. It was a number of days before we located the wreckage on beach at Smith Cove - Seattle Harbor
26 · Cause, as written
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Signature
- Signed by
- F Clark
- Company or by
- Chesley Tug & Barge Co
- Date signed
- January 15, 1920
- Place
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- 1 · Date of casualty
- Fall of 1918
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American Scow Chesley #5 (wood)
- 3 · Tonnage
- 46 Tons Gross & Net
- 4 · Age or year built
- 5 years
- 5 · Port registered
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Seattle - Washington- [illegible mark struck through] Seattle [written below struck through mark] Seattle [written on original line again] [illegible symbol or letter] [handwritten text is quite messy… - 6 · Official number
- 166,792
- 7 · Master and residence
- X
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Chesley Tug & Barge Co
- 9 · Sailed from
- X
- 10 · Bound for
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Seattle Harbor X [there is an X mark before or after Seattle Harbor, hard to tell. Actually it looks like it is on line 9. Line 9 is X, line 10 is Seattle Harbor. Wait, line 9 is X. Line 10 is Seattle… - 11 · Passengers
- none
- 12 · Crew
- none
- 13 · Persons lost
- none
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $400 00
- 15 · Value of cargo
- none
- 16 · Cargo
- none
- 17 · Deck load
- no
- 18 · Overladen
- X
- 19 · Cargo weight
- X
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- $400 00
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- X
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- none
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- X
- 24 · Locality
- Smith Cove - Seattle Harbor
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- The scow was rented out to a city and in use when it disappeared one night during wind storm. It was a number of days before we located the wreckage on beach at Smith Cove - Seattle Harbor
- 26 · Cause
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- 27 · Weather
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- 28 · Measures taken
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- 29 · Assistance
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- 30 · Remarks
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