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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/11/1941

The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.

Year of ship completion

1940

The individual and/or organisation listed as having been responsible for constructing the vessel. This can/may be the same as the owner and/or manager.

Shipbuilder

J L Thompson & Sons Ltd

The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Place of build

Sunderland

Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.

Survey number

11317

The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.

Country of registration

Italy

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

Allan, Black & Co

Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.

Classification

+100A1 with fbd 3.41

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.

Net Register Tonnage

2750

Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?

Machinery aft?

No

Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).

Is a donkey boiler fitted?

No

Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.

Lloyd's Proving House?

No

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sunk by aircraft about the 7 October 1941

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Thistlegorm

The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.

Launch Date

04/09/1940

Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.

Yard no

599

The country in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.

Country of build

United Kingdom

Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.

Document identity

Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Sunderland

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Albyn Line Ltd

Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record

Document author

J L Thompson & Sons Ltd

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

Cargo

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Steel

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

4898

Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.

Refrigeration machinery fitted for cargo purposes?

No

Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?

Auxillary

No

Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?

Electric light fitted?

No

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Sunk by aircraft

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

10/07/1941

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Allyn Line Ld based at Midland Bank Chambers, St Thomas Street, Sunderland

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