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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)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.
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.
Second MIT Conference on Technology, Archaeology, and the Deep Sea, Bosten, MA Presented at MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 26–28 April 2002
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