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- Item 20 response '$700.00 to Drill Boat (none To Argo' indicates damage was to the other vessel.
- A faint circle is pencilled near items 3 and 6.
Form header
- Running number
- 31
- Filed at
- CLEVELAND, O # 41
- Received
- U. S. COAST GUARD RECEIVED AUG 6 1919 ASST. INSPECTOR · 6 Aug 1919
- Vessel name written at top
- —
- Other numbers
- —
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Argo · Str, American
- 6 · Official number
- 107157
- 3 · Tonnage
- 490 Net 721 Gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- 24 yrs
- 5 · Port registered
- Fairport
- 7 · Master and residence
- W. E. Randall 225 Gladys ave Lakewood Ohio
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Argo Steamship Co - 819 Rockefeller Bldg Cleveland O
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- July 5, Sat. 3 PM 1919
- 24 · Locality
- Welland Canal.-
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Ogdensburg July 4 1919 → Marquette
- 27 · Weather
- No wind
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, 17 crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $25000
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Collision with Canadian Drill Boat 1
26 · Cause, as written
Suction, Drill boat not allowing sufficient room to pass
Signature
- Signed by
- W. E. Randall · Master
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- July 30 1919
- Place
- —
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Verbatim from the form. Item labels are approximate; the printed wording varies by year.
- 1 · Date of casualty
- July 5, Sat. 3 PM 1919
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American Str Argo Wood,
- 3 · Tonnage
- 490 Net 721 Gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- 24 yrs
- 5 · Port registered
- Fairport
- 6 · Official number
- 107157
- 7 · Master and residence
- W. E. Randall 225 Gladys ave Lakewood Ohio
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Argo Steamship Co - 819 Rockefeller Bldg Cleveland O
- 9 · Sailed from
- Ogdensburg July 4 1919
- 10 · Bound for
- Marquette
- 11 · Passengers
- none
- 12 · Crew
- 17
- 13 · Persons lost
- none
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $25000
- 15 · Value of cargo
- Thirty Thousand Dollars
- 16 · Cargo
- Pyrites
- 17 · Deck load
- no
- 18 · Overladen
- no
- 19 · Cargo weight
- 1000 Tons
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- $700.00 to Drill Boat (none To Argo
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- none
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- not known
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- "
- 24 · Locality
- Welland Canal.-
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Collision with Canadian Drill Boat 1
- 26 · Cause
- Suction, Drill boat not allowing sufficient room to pass
- 27 · Weather
- No wind
- 28 · Measures taken
- Did all possible to avoid collision with (Drill Boat)
- 29 · Assistance
- none
- 30 · Remarks
- Argo collided with drill boat in welland canal doing estimated damage to drill boat as stated.