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Listen: The FolkFolk ProgramOn board the Putnam Lumber Company ship "J.W. Clise" while docked at Commodore Point - Jacksonville, Florida
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Built in Washington circa 1904, it was owned 1920s-1939 by the Putnam Lumber Company. 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.
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