Elvie no 2 · foundering
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 66–67 · No. 886
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Reader’s notes on the scan
- Item 6 had a number struck through before 216375.
- Handwritten marks like 'gap' appear near item 2.
- Stamps RIVERS, TOTAL LOSS, and FOUNDERING are applied near items 15, 19, and 25.
- Running number 887 is written sideways in the left margin.
- The place signed is blank.
Form header
- Running number
- 886
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 43, Port of Memphis, Tenn
- Received
- U. S. COAST GUARD REC'D NOV 30 1919 By ANS'D · 30 Nov 1919
- Vessel name written at top
- Elvie No. 2
- Other numbers
- —
- Stamps on the form
- RIVERSTOTAL LOSSFOUNDERING
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Elvie no 2 · American
- 6 · Official number
- 216375
- 3 · Tonnage
- 9 net 11 gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- 2 years an 11 manth
- 5 · Port registered
- At St Port of memphis, Tenn.
- 7 · Master and residence
- Barr W. Freeman
- 8 · Owner and residence
- m purner / W Freeman
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- 3 clock pm nacember 10 1918
- 24 · Locality
- Tomato. Ark- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Tomedo Ark → Strate a cross River
- 27 · Weather
- Heavy. at Night. Dark
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, no one a Boart crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $1000
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Sunk
26 · Cause, as written
Sunk by wind storm
Signature
- Signed by
- N J Freeman
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- Nov The 5, 1917
- Place
- —
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- 1 · Date of casualty
- 3 clock pm nacember 10 1918
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American Elvie no 2 woad
- 3 · Tonnage
- 9 net 11 gross
- 4 · Age or year built
- 2 years an 11 manth
- 5 · Port registered
- At St Port of memphis, Tenn.
- 6 · Official number
- 216375
- 7 · Master and residence
- Barr W. Freeman
- 8 · Owner and residence
- m purner / W Freeman
- 9 · Sailed from
- Tomedo Ark
- 10 · Bound for
- Strate a cross River
- 11 · Passengers
- none
- 12 · Crew
- no one a Boart
- 13 · Persons lost
- none
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $1000
- 15 · Value of cargo
- no carg
- 16 · Cargo
- none
- 17 · Deck load
- no
- 18 · Overladen
- no
- 19 · Cargo weight
- tatat los
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- tatal los
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- non
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- none
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- none
- 24 · Locality
- Tomato. Ark- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Sunk
- 26 · Cause
- Sunk by wind storm
- 27 · Weather
- Heavy. at Night. Dark
- 28 · Measures taken
- —
- 29 · Assistance
- none. Boat broke loose
- 30 · Remarks
- lost in no[illegible] By wind