Pioneer · foundering
Report of Casualty, 2 pages · T925-0005, pp. 244–245 · No. 912
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Form header
- Running number
- 912
- Filed at
- Collection District No. 31, Port of KETCHIKAN, ALASKA
- Received
- U. S. COAST GUARD REC'D AUG 14 1926 · 14 Aug 1926
- Vessel name written at top
- —
- Other numbers
- —
- Stamps on the form
- PACIFICTOTAL LOSSFOUNDERING
Vessel
- 2 · Name, rig, nationality
- Pioneer · Gas Screw, American
- 6 · Official number
- 208566
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 11 tons Net 7 Tons
- 4 · Age or year built
- Built 1911
- 5 · Port registered
- Ketchikan Alaska
- 7 · Master and residence
- J. N. Booth, Metlakatla, Alaska
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Straits Packing Co. Seattle
Casualty
- 1 · Date
- About December 1918
- 24 · Locality
- Metlakatla, Alaska
- 9–10 · Voyage
- —
- 27 · Weather
- unknown
- 11–13 · Passengers / crew / lost
- no passengers, Three crew, no persons lost
- 14 · Value of vessel
- 1200.00
25 · Nature of casualty, as written
Went adrift in blow and not found again.
26 · Cause, as written
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Signature
- Signed by
- Straits Packing Company
- Company or by
- By H[illegible] [illegible]
- Date signed
- July 17, 1926
- Place
- —
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Verbatim from the form. Item labels are approximate; the printed wording varies by year.
- 1 · Date of casualty
- About December 1918
- 2 · Vessel, rig, nationality
- American Gas Screw Pioneer, Wood
- 3 · Tonnage
- Gross 11 tons Net 7 Tons
- 4 · Age or year built
- Built 1911
- 5 · Port registered
- Ketchikan Alaska
- 6 · Official number
- 208566
- 7 · Master and residence
- J. N. Booth, Metlakatla, Alaska
- 8 · Owner and residence
- Straits Packing Co. Seattle
- 9 · Sailed from
- —
- 10 · Bound for
- —
- 11 · Passengers
- None
- 12 · Crew
- Three
- 13 · Persons lost
- None
- 14 · Value of vessel
- 1200.00
- 15 · Value of cargo
- none
- 16 · Cargo
- "
- 17 · Deck load
- "
- 18 · Overladen
- "
- 19 · Cargo weight
- "
- 20 · Loss or insurance (20)
- Total
- 21 · Loss or insurance (21)
- None
- 22 · Loss or insurance (22)
- None
- 23 · Loss or insurance (23)
- "
- 24 · Locality
- Metlakatla, Alaska
- 25 · Nature of casualty
- Went adrift in blow and not found again.
- 26 · Cause
- —
- 27 · Weather
- unknown
- 28 · Measures taken
- —
- 29 · Assistance
- —
- 30 · Remarks
- This boat, in charge of J. M. Booth, Alaska Native Indian, went adrift from Metlakatla village, Alaska, in a severe wind storm sometime in the winter of 1918. No one was aboard at the time. The vessel has not been seen since, as far as known.