J. W. Clise (schooner)

J.W. Clise was a four master schooner built in 1904 in United States and sailed for both Norwegian and American companies.[1][2][3][4][5]

History
 United StatesUnited States
Name: J. W. Clise
Owner: Unknown, sailed under US flag in 1909
Builder: Globe Navigation Co (Ballard, Washington state, US)
Launched: 1904
Porsgrunn,  NorwayNorway
Name: J. W. Clise
Owner: A/S Porsgrunds Motor & Seil
Cost: US$ 55 000
Acquired: 1917
Honolulu,  United StatesUnited States
Name: J. W. Clise
Owner: Unknown of Honolulu
Acquired: 1923
Jacksonville, Florida,  United StatesUnited States
Name: J. W. Clise
Owner: Putnam Lumber Company, Shamrock (Florida, United States)
Acquired: After 1923 in the 1920s
Tampa, Florida,  United StatesUnited States
Name: J. W. Clise
Owner: Unknown, Tampa, Florida, United States
Acquired: 1939
Fate: Foundered in 1940
Notes: Caught in the 1940 Louisiana hurricane and the crew had to leave the ship. Towed to Mobile by United States Coast Guard and later abandoned or sunk. The wreck is located in the Gulf of Mexico at between 2637 and 2762 meters depth.
General characteristics
Class and type: schooner
Tons burthen: 845 Gross register tonnage
Length: 185,6 feet
Propulsion: Sails
Sail plan: Fore-and-aft rig

J. W. Clise was abandoned in the 1940 Louisiana hurricane and the wreck is situated at between 2637 and 2762 metres in the Gulf of Mexico.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Characteristics, owners and captains

J.W. Clise was a fore-and-aft rigged schooner.[4] The schooner had a deadweight tonnage of 1400 tons, was 845 gross register tonnage and net 765 tons.[1][3][4] Its measures was 185,6 - 41,0 - 14,0 feet.[4]

In the periode 1904-1917 the schooner had at least for a period American owner.[11] In 1917 it was bought by the Norwegian company «A/S Porsgrunds Motor & Seil»[12] owned by H. Chr. Hansen and Valdemar Holm.[1][3][4] The schooner was sold to Honolulu USA in 1923.[1][4]

The schooner was later in the 1920s bought by Putnam Lumber Company in Shamrock (Florida) who sold it in 1939.[7][8] The sources does not say who bought the schooner in 1939, when it foundered it was of Tampa, Florida, USA.[9]

In 1917 it was bought for US$ 55 000 ( kr 223 957,77) and was insured for NOK 275 000.[3] I 1917 it earned net NOK 47 678,15.[3]

In 1909 E. N. Smith was captain.[13] From 1917 and until 1919 J.W. Clise was captained by H.A. Larsen and from then on and until 1923 it was captained by J. Mela.[1][4] Richard Copsey was captain while it sailed for the Putnam Company.[7][8]

History

The history of J. W. Clise is not complete, but bits and pieces exists with different sources.

1904 - 1917

J. W. Clise was built in 1904 in Ballard, Washington state, United States at the shipyard Globe Navigation Co.[4][5]

In January 1909 she sailed from San Francisco to Cape Flattery in 3 days which the owners regarded as remarkable.[13] Captain at the time was E. N. Smith.[13] In 1911 or 1912 she was owned by a US company when a captain Noonan was passenger from Port Townsend to Chile.[11] The schooner came from Mukilteo on the Pacific coast and arrived at Otago, New Zealand with lumber in September 1916.[14]

1917 - 1923

J. W. Clise had in 1917 sailed from Willapa Harbor (Washington state in the United States) to Sydney (New South Wales in Australia), to Newcastle, New South Wales, to Antofagasta (Chile), Honolulu and to Greys Harbor south of Puget Sound (Washington state, on the West coast of United States).[3] She used 17 days from Honolulu to Greys Harbor and the owners considered this somewhat of a record.[3] She had sailed with lumber, coal and saltpeter.[3]

1923 - 1940

The schooner was sold to Honolulu in USA in 1923.[4] She was in the 1920s bought by the Putnam Lumber Company in Florida and they owned it until 1939.[7][8] The boats home harbour was then Jacksonville.[7][8]

The schooner came to St. Petersburg, Florida with lumber in February 1926.[15] What other destinations it sailed to the sources does not tell.

1940 - the end

During the most serious hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico in August 1940 (the 1940 Louisiana hurricane) J. W. Clise began to take in water several miles south of Mobile and the crew had to abandon ship.[5][6][7][8][9][10] The crew was later saved.[10] US Coast Guart searched for the schooner.[9] She was towed to Mobile by US Coast Guard and was later sunk or abandoned.[7][8]

The wreck is at a depth between 2637 and 2762 meters.[6]

Archives

The schooners logs for the period 11 March 1908 to 13 August 1910 is with the National Archives in Seattle, Washington, United States.[16] Two pictures of the boat exists with the State Archives of Florida.[7][8] The ships papers with U.S. Coast Guard was archived in 1948.[17]

Curiosa

A painting of the schooner was sold on eBay in 2012.[18]

Scuba diving netsites are looking for information from divers having visited the wreck.[19][20]

References
  1. Norske seilskuter: mennene fra de hvite seils dage tilegnet. Bind 2. Oslo: Fredhøi. 1933. p. 10.
  2. Norske seilskuter: tilegnet mennene fra de hvite seils dager - de som skapte glansen om Norge som sjøfartsnasjon (in Norwegian) (Revidert utgave ed.). Oslo: Fredhøis forl. 1944. p. 64.
  3. Diesen, Emil (1918). Norsk industri- og næringshaandbok. 14 1 : Norske skibs- og fangstselskaper 1918 620 større skibsselskaper juni 1918 (in Norwegian). Kristiania: A/S Økonomisk literatur. pp. 474–475.
  4. "J. W. CLISE ex USA s.n.1904Ballard, Washington, USA" (norsk). Seilskipsregister - Viser 766 - 770 av 1000 treff. Norsk Maritimt Museum. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  5. Jack Holt, Mary R. Bartz, Jake Lehman, United States. Minerals Management Service. Gulf of Mexico OCS Region (1983). Final regional environmental impact statement, Gulf of Mexico, Volum 1 (E-book from Google). Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Management Service. p. 237. Retrieved 2014-08-26.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. Jack B. Irion, Ph.D. (26.-28 April 2002). "Cultural Resource Management of Shipwrecks on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Slope" (English). Minerals Management Service U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2014-08-26. "Second MIT Conference on Technology, Archaeology, and the Deep Sea, Bosten, MA Presented at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 26–28 April 2002"
  7. "Putnam Lumber Company ship "J.W. Clise" docked at Commodore Point - Jacksonville, Florida" (English). Florida Photographic Collection, Image no RC09106, Shelf number: 15602.. The State Archives of Florida (1934). Retrieved 2014-08-26. "Built in Washington circa 1904, it was owned 1920s-1939 by the Putnam Lumber Company based in Shamrock, Florida. Its captain was Richard Copsey and home port Jacksonville. The ship became disabled several hundred miles south of Mobile during an August 1940 hurricane and was abandoned by the crew. It was towed to Mobile by the Coast Guard and was probably scuttled or abandoned."
  8. "On board the Putnam Lumber Company ship "J.W. Clise" while docked at Commodore Point - Jacksonville, Florida" (English). Florida Photographic Collection, Image no RC09110, Shelf number: 15603.. The State Archives of Florida (1934). Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  9. UPI (6 August 1940). "Severe Storms Menaces Texas And Louisiane. Towns Along Coast Warned To Prepare for Gale of Hurricane Force, Accom-panied by High Tides" (PDF). Evening Recorder, Amsterdam, N.Y. The year's most severe Gulf of Mexico disturbance, which already has disabled several vessels, headed today towards the Louisiana and Texas coast. ... Coast Guard officials said the Greek freighter Oropos wirelessed it was in distress about 30 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and that the schooner J. W. Clise of Tampa, Fla., had been abandoned 135 miles south of the river's mouth after the crew was rescued. ... the steamer Panamaco rescued the captain and six sailors from the four-master schooner, J. W. Clise of Tampa, Fla., when the craft became water-logged. A Coast Guard boat was searching for the derelict.
  10. David Roth (8 April 2010). "Louisiana Hurricane History" (English). US Dept of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Weather Service. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  11. Jerry Hamilton (04.09.1998). "Fred Noonan, Sea Captain" (English). Earhart Project Research Bulletin #9. TIGHAR. Retrieved 2014-08-26. "This summary of Fred Noonan’s seafaring career was compiled by Jerry Hamilton, TIGHAR member #2128, from primary source official documents. .. NOTE: Much of the maritime history is from a personnel service records file for "Subject, Noonan, Frederick Jos., Deck Officer." File number 3-A-1. This file from US Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation, Operating Department Division. This file and related information came from the National Archives."
  12. Svenkerud, Erling (1990). Byglimt fra Skien (in Norwegian). Skien: Fylkesmuseet for Telemark og Grenland. p. 89. ISBN 8290692102. Aksjebrev fra jobbetida som viser at korrekt stavemåte på navnet er A/S Porsgrunds Motor & Seil og at firmaet ble registrert 14. april 1917.
  13. "J. W. Clise (schooner)" (English). cimorelli.com. Archived from originalen 3 September 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-26. "Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1909, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 147 (Citation: Tacoma Public Library)"
  14. "SHIPPING, ARRIVALS, THE DIRECT STEAMERS" (English). Issue 16795, Page 6. Otago Daily Times, Dunedin, New Zealand (9 September 1916). Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  15. "Schooner Brings Cargo of Lumber" (English). The Evening Independent (2 February 1926). Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  16. "Official ships log books: J. W. Clise 11 Mar 1908-13 Aug 1910 (schooner)" (English). Microfilm of originals. National Archives Branch in Seattle, Washington.. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  17. "RG 26 - U.S. Coast Guard, Vessel Documentation Case Files - Mobile, Alabama" (English). The National Archives at Atlanta. Retrieved 2014-08-26. "This series consists of case files that include correspondence and copies of forms relating to the documentation and ownership of vessels and ships of varying classes, sizes, and tonnages. ... Vessel case files were closed when a maritime carrier such as a steamship, sailing vessel, or yacht was lost, registered under a foreign flag, or changed its homeport."
  18. "Antique Oil Painting of the American Schooner J.W. Clise. Signed." (English). eBay (22 December 2012). Retrieved 2014-08-26.
  19. Tim (May 12, 2014,). "J.W. Clise Ship Wreck" (English). scubatalk.org. Archived from originalen 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2014-08-27. "Do you know more about this location or perhaps you have photos or videos you would like to share? Help others with their exploration. "
  20. "J.W. CLISE. Advice for diving J.W. CLISE in United States" (English). DiveAdvisor.com. Retrieved 2014-08-27. "Been diving at J.W. CLISE? Would you like to share your experience?"
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