Western King · collision
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 97–98 · No. 902
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- Item 3: A clerk penciled '4203 net' next to the answer column for Item 3.
- Item 6: '216073' appears in the answer column, with something else struck through beside it.
- Item 25: A 'COLLISION' stamp is stamped in the label column, and 'FOREIGN' is stamped near Item 13/14.
Form header
- Running number
- 902
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 30, Port of Seattle Wash.
- Received
- REC'D SEP 29 1919 ANS'D · 29 Sep 1919
- Vessel name written at top
- Western King
- Other numbers
- —
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Western King · S.S., American
- 6 · Official number
- 216073Also written nearby: 4203 Net
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 5659 N.W. 8643
- 4 · Age or year built
- Completed March 26, 1918.
- 5 · Port registered
- Seattle, U.S.
Full reading
Seattle, U.S. 216073 I. A. Connaughton, 571 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn, n.y. United States Shipping Board Barcelona Spain Feby 9, 1919 New York via Gibraltar None 49 None
- 7 · Master and residence
- I. A. Connaughton, 571 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn, n.y.
- 8 · Owner and residence
- United States Shipping Board
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- Sunday, Feby 9, 1919
- 24 · Locality
- Barcelona, Spain
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Barcelona Spain Feby 9, 1919 → New York via Gibraltar
- 27 · Weather
- 3-4 N N E sea - M.
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, 49 crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $1,728,600
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Collision Simonette Italian bark
Full reading
Collision Simonette Italian bark (Engine trouble) Pol Bergere French yawl
26 · Cause, as written
Western King struck both of these vessels entering Harbor of Barcelona
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- 1 · Date of casualty
- Sunday, Feby 9, 1919
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American - S.S. - "Western King" steel
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 5659 N.W. 8643
- 4 · Age or year built
- Completed March 26, 1918.
- 5 · Port registered
- Seattle, U.S.
Full reading
Seattle, U.S. 216073 I. A. Connaughton, 571 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn, n.y. United States Shipping Board Barcelona Spain Feby 9, 1919 New York via Gibraltar None 49 None
- 6 · Official number
- 216073
- 7 · Master and residence
- I. A. Connaughton, 571 Lincoln Pl., Brooklyn, n.y.
- 8 · Owner and residence
- United States Shipping Board
- 9 · Sailed from
- Barcelona Spain Feby 9, 1919
- 10 · Bound for
- New York via Gibraltar
- 11 · Passengers
- None
- 12 · Crew
- 49
- 13 · Persons lost
- None
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $1,728,600
- 15 · Value of cargo
- ---
- 16 · Cargo
- Corkwaste and general
- 17 · Deck load
- no
- 18 · Overladen
- no
- 19 · Cargo weight
- About 2225 Tons
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- None
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- None
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- $1,728,600. premium per annum $60,501.00
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- ---
- 24 · Locality
- Barcelona, Spain
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Collision Simonette Italian bark
Full reading
Collision Simonette Italian bark (Engine trouble) Pol Bergere French yawl
- 26 · Cause
- Western King struck both of these vessels entering Harbor of Barcelona
- 27 · Weather
- 3-4 N N E sea - M.
- 28 · Measures taken
- Dropped both anchors - had called pilot & tugs
- 29 · Assistance
- Pilot and tugs took vessel to berth
- 30 · Remarks
- Vessel had sailed from Barcelona. Trouble developed with air pump - came back to pump repaired. Decided to return to harbor for final repairs. Engine failure drifted broad-side into shipping. Collided two sailing vessels. Anchors let go but failed to hold. Slight damage sailing vessels. no damage to steamer.