W. D Hossack · casualty
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 255–256
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- Item 1: 'July' is written above 'July' which is struck through, but both mean July.
- The signature name appears to be blank or completely illegible due to scanning artifacts.
Form header
- Running number
- —
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 19, Port of Mobile Alabama
- Received
- U.S. COAST GUARD REC'D JUL 14 1919 ANS'D By · 14 Jul 1919
- Vessel name written at top
- W.D. Hossack
- Other numbers
- —
- Stamps on the form
- —
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- W. D Hossack · Schr, American
- 6 · Official number
- 2935
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 330. Net 292
- 4 · Age or year built
- 47 years
- 5 · Port registered
- Mobile Ala
- 7 · Master and residence
- W. C Hunter Mobile Ala
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Mobile & Gulf Navigation Co. Mobile Ala
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- 10-a m Friday 4 July 1919
- 24 · Locality
- Pensacola Bearing N. 3/4 E. 25 miles
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Mobile Ala 1st July 1919 → Gibara Cuba
- 27 · Weather
- 75. to 80 miles per hour
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- — passengers, Seven crew, — persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $ 20.000
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Foundering
26 · Cause, as written
Strong Tropical Storm
Signature
- Signed by
- —
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- July 10th, 1919.
- Place
- Mobile, Ala.
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- 1 · Date of casualty
- 10-a m Friday 4 July 1919
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American Schr W. D Hossack, Wood
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 330. Net 292
- 4 · Age or year built
- 47 years
- 5 · Port registered
- Mobile Ala
- 6 · Official number
- 2935
- 7 · Master and residence
- W. C Hunter Mobile Ala
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Mobile & Gulf Navigation Co. Mobile Ala
- 9 · Sailed from
- Mobile Ala 1st July 1919
- 10 · Bound for
- Gibara Cuba
- 11 · Passengers
- —
- 12 · Crew
- Seven
- 13 · Persons lost
- —
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $ 20.000
- 15 · Value of cargo
- 12.000
- 16 · Cargo
- Rough and Dressed Lumber
- 17 · Deck load
- Yes
- 18 · Overladen
- No.
- 19 · Cargo weight
- 400 Tons
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- Water Logged
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- Total loss
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- None
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- Unk of Value
- 24 · Locality
- Pensacola Bearing N. 3/4 E. 25 miles
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Foundering
- 26 · Cause
- Strong Tropical Storm
- 27 · Weather
- 75. to 80 miles per hour
- 28 · Measures taken
- Every measure possible
- 29 · Assistance
- None except its crew
- 30 · Remarks
- all hands stood by until 8 p m Friday 4 th Febry/ July we them toots to the Boats and Landed at 5.30 p m on Sat 5th one and one half miles east of the Coast Guard Station at Santa Rosa Island