White male, born on July 16, 1890 in either Norway or Copenhagen, Denmark. He died by accidental drowning in Pensacola, FL on 16 July, 1927. At the time of his death, he was single, and worked as a crewman aboard the fishing smack Osceola, owned by the Warren Fish Co. His death certificate says he had been in Pensacola for 5 years; the informant was Willy Killum of the Warren Fish Co.
An article in the Pensacola Journal the following Monday said that Carl had asked the dock watchmen to board the Osceola to retrieve a package the night of Friday, July 15, and was never seen alive again. His body was found floating in the water by a crewmate the next morning and he was buried in the Escambia County Poor Farm. His drowning was attributed to drunkenness observed by the watchmen; it was assumed he never actually made it aboard the smack. The article said he had a mother in Copenhagen (this contradicts his death certificate, which says he was born in Norway).
A Declaration of Intention was signed in 1913 by Carl Henrick Andersen, 24 years old, a seaman born in Copenhagen but who arrived in Pensacola on 15 February 1913 on the Frigate Karus, which sailed from Fredrikstad, Norway. This document indicates Carl was residing in New York City at the time. He was 5’7″ tall, with a ruddy complexion, blonde hair and blue eyes, with tattooing on both arms and a scar at the left side of his mouth. It has not been confirmed that this is the same man.
SOURCES:
Florida Certificate of Death, Florida Deaths, 1877-1939. Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 14 June 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
The Pensacola Journal, 18 JUL 1927, p. 1
Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1943 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. [accessed 11 NOV 2021]