The Wreck Files

City of Orange · total loss

Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 20–21 · No. 860

FOREIGNTOTAL LOSSOTHER CAUSES
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Report of Casualty, City of Orange, page 20

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  • Item 2: handwritten text 'gas' added next to the label 'Nationality, rig, etc.'
  • Item 3: handwritten check mark next to text.
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  • Item 6: handwritten check mark next to text.
  • Item 7: 'F.N.' handwritten above 'Nordberg'.
  • Item 20: 'TOTAL LOSS' stamped over 'total'.
  • Item 21: 'TOTAL LOSS' stamped over 'total'.
  • Item 24: 'France' handwritten over typed entry.
  • Item 25: 'OTHER CAUSES' stamped under typed 'Fire'.

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Form header

Running number
860
Filed at
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Received
  • U. S. COAST GUARD REC'D OCT 3 1919 By ANS'D · 3 Oct 1919
Vessel name written at top
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Other numbers
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FOREIGNTOTAL LOSSOTHER CAUSES

Vessel

2 · Name, rig, nationality
City of Orange · schooner, American
6 · Official number
214819
3 · Tonnage
1380 net 1664 gross
4 · Age or year built
2 years
5 · Port registered
Port Arthur,Texas.
7 · Master and residence
Capt.F.N.Nordberg.South Ferry Hotel,N.Y.
8 · Owner and residence
Ship Ownery Co.,68 Broad St.,N.Y.

Casualty

1 · Date
May 24,1919 (Saturday - night)
24 · Locality
Port of Marseilles France (France written in pen next to it.)
9–10 · Voyage
New York - Feb. 20th,1919 → Marseilles
27 · Weather
Fair weather - starlight
11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
no passengers, 16 crew, no persons lost
14 · Value of vessel
$200,000

25 · Nature of casualty, as written

Fire

26 · Cause, as written

Unknown

Signature

Signed by
Ira Briggs · Treasurer
Company or by
SHIP OWNERS CO., INC.
Date signed
9/24, 1919
Place
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Verbatim from the form. Item labels are approximate; the printed wording varies by year.

1 · Date of casualty
May 24,1919 (Saturday - night)
2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
American,schooner,"City of Orange", wood.
3 · Tonnage
1380 net 1664 gross
4 · Age or year built
2 years
5 · Port registered
Port Arthur,Texas.
6 · Official number
214819
7 · Master and residence
Capt.F.N.Nordberg.South Ferry Hotel,N.Y.
8 · Owner and residence
Ship Ownery Co.,68 Broad St.,N.Y.
9 · Sailed from
New York - Feb. 20th,1919
10 · Bound for
Marseilles
11 · Passengers
none
12 · Crew
16
13 · Persons lost
none
14 · Value of vessel
$200,000
15 · Value of cargo
nil
16 · Cargo
ballast
17 · Deck load
no
18 · Overladen
no
19 · Cargo weight
(ballast about 200 T.)
20 · Loss or insurance (20)
total
21 · Loss or insurance (21)
total
22 · Loss or insurance (22)
Lire 3,000,000
23 · Loss or insurance (23)
none (in ballast)
24 · Locality
Port of Marseilles France (France written in pen next to it.)
25 · Nature of casualty
Fire
26 · Cause
Unknown
27 · Weather
Fair weather - starlight
28 · Measures taken
Hose from donkey boiler used also assistance of French Torpedo boat; later fire tug from the port of Marseilles
29 · Assistance
Men from Crew, Crew of "ITU" French Naval Authorities Marseilles, Port fire department.
30 · Remarks
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