CREAM CITY · casualty
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 211–212 · No. 9552
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- Rubber stamps 'LAKES' and 'STRANDING' present near items 13 and 20.
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Form header
- Running number
- 9552
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 39, Port of Marquette, Mich.
- Received
- NAVIGATION 1921 AUG 1 AM 8 59 · 1 Aug 1921
- Vessel name written at top
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- Other numbers
- —
- Stamps on the form
- —
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- CREAM CITY · Str., Am.
- 6 · Official number
- 110641
- 3 · Tonnage
- 570 gross - 416 net.
- 4 · Age or year built
- Built in 1884
- 5 · Port registered
- Marquette mich
- 7 · Master and residence
- E.J.Farley,1538-72 St.,Chicago,Ill.
- 8 · Owner and residence
- James R.Andrews Trans.Co.,Escanaba, Mich.
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- July 1,1918,Monday, 3:15 a.m.
- 24 · Locality
- False Detour Passage (north shore of Lake Huron)
- 9–10 · Voyage
- Buffalo, June 27, 1918. → Gore Bay, Ont.
- 27 · Weather
- 60 miles, rain, heavy; daylight.
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, 15 crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $40,000-
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Stranding
26 · Cause, as written
Southwest gale.
Signature
- Signed by
- (signed) E. J. Farley, · Master.
- Company or by
- —
- Date signed
- July 26, 1918.
- Place
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- 1 · Date of casualty
- July 1,1918,Monday, 3:15 a.m.
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- Am.Str. CREAM CITY, wood.
- 3 · Tonnage
- 570 gross - 416 net.
- 4 · Age or year built
- Built in 1884
- 5 · Port registered
- Marquette mich
- 6 · Official number
- 110641
- 7 · Master and residence
- E.J.Farley,1538-72 St.,Chicago,Ill.
- 8 · Owner and residence
- James R.Andrews Trans.Co.,Escanaba, Mich.
- 9 · Sailed from
- Buffalo, June 27, 1918.
- 10 · Bound for
- Gore Bay, Ont.
- 11 · Passengers
- None
- 12 · Crew
- 15
- 13 · Persons lost
- None
- 14 · Value of vessel
- $40,000-
- 15 · Value of cargo
- No Cargo
- 16 · Cargo
- do
- 17 · Deck load
- do
- 18 · Overladen
- do
- 19 · Cargo weight
- do
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- Total Loss
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- No cargo
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- $20,000
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- No cargo
- 24 · Locality
- False Detour Passage (north shore of Lake Huron)
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Stranding
- 26 · Cause
- Southwest gale.
- 27 · Weather
- 60 miles, rain, heavy; daylight.
- 28 · Measures taken
- After seeing reef, let go both anchors, towline on barge. Steamer would not come up, and blew us on reef.
- 29 · Assistance
- On July 3, Great Lakes Towing and Wrecking Co. came to our assistance with tugs and pumps.
- 30 · Remarks
- When steamer would not come around, backed once full speed astern, but did no good.