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- Item 9 is heavily overwritten making the exact wording ambiguous, looks like 'Left Rio Janeiro April 26, bound May, sailing 18th. May for Mobile.', but there are multiple lines overlapping.
- Items 16 to 19, 21 to 23 are answered with ditto marks.
Form header
- Running number
- 33
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 19, Port of MOBILE, ALABAMA
- Received
- COAST GUARD REC'D AUG 11 1919 ANS'D · 11 Aug 1919
- Vessel name written at top
- —
- Other numbers
- —
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- MOJAVE · S.S., AMERICAN
- 6 · Official number
- 216797
- 3 · Tonnage
- 1500 tons net, 2545 tons gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- built 1918
- 5 · Port registered
- Tacoma, Wash.
- 7 · Master and residence
- E.E. STROUT, ROCKLAND, MAINE
- 8 · Owner and residence
- EMERGENCY FLEET COR., U.S.S.B. WASHINGTON, D.C.
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- 1919 Friday, August 1st. at 11:30 A.M.
- 24 · Locality
- Pier Henderson Ship Building Co. Mobile, Ala.
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Left Rio Janeiro April 26, bound May, sailing 18th. May for Mobile. → Bristol,
- 27 · Weather
- —
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, Usual Crew 40, Only 8 aboard at time of accident, crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $200,000.00
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
The Barge "ALLEGENY" from Port Arthur, Texas, laden with oil, in tow of Tug "CALVERT" struck steamer stern,
26 · Cause, as written
The Tug "CALVERT" in an effort to avoid another tow coming in the opposite direction, did not give the "MOJAVE" sufficient room to get by without striking her.
Signature
- Signed by
- E E Stout · master
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- Aug 8, 1919
- Place
- Mobile Ala
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Verbatim from the form. Item labels are approximate; the printed wording varies by year.
- 1 · Date of casualty
- 1919 Friday, August 1st. at 11:30 A.M.
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- AMERICAN S.S. "MOJAVE", Wooden,
- 3 · Tonnage
- 1500 tons net, 2545 tons gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- built 1918
- 5 · Port registered
- Tacoma, Wash.
- 6 · Official number
- 216,797
- 7 · Master and residence
- E.E. STROUT, ROCKLAND, MAINE
- 8 · Owner and residence
- EMERGENCY FLEET COR., U.S.S.B. WASHINGTON, D.C.
- 9 · Sailed from
- Left Rio Janeiro April 26, bound May, sailing 18th. May for Mobile.
- 10 · Bound for
- Bristol,
- 11 · Passengers
- None
- 12 · Crew
- Usual Crew 40, Only 8 aboard at time of accident,
- 13 · Persons lost
- None
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $200,000.00
- 15 · Value of cargo
- None
- 16 · Cargo
- "
- 17 · Deck load
- "
- 18 · Overladen
- "
- 19 · Cargo weight
- "
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- $40,000.00
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- "
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- "
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- "
- 24 · Locality
- Pier Henderson Ship Building Co. Mobile, Ala.
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- The Barge "ALLEGENY" from Port Arthur, Texas, laden with oil, in tow of Tug "CALVERT" struck steamer stern,
- 26 · Cause
- The Tug "CALVERT" in an effort to avoid another tow coming in the opposite direction, did not give the "MOJAVE" sufficient room to get by without striking her.
- 27 · Weather
- —
- 28 · Measures taken
- Nothing could be done to avoid accident
- 29 · Assistance
- None
- 30 · Remarks
- There were no eye-witnesses to the accident on board S.S. "MOJAVE"