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Report on Water Tube Boilers for Empire Wordsworth, 24th September 1942
Date of document: 24/09/1942
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Date recorded as the time of writing.
07/09/1942
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1942
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.
Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Sunderland
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
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.
Percy L Hunting
Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.
Cargo
Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.
Steel
A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).
9891
Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.
Newcastle on Tyne
R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd
Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?
No
Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).
No
Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.
No
The official record pronounced by the Committee
To be broken up
Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
Briton Ferry
Physical extent of a record.
1
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Empire Wordsworth
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
29/05/1942
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
742
Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
BFBT
The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.
Sunderland
The individual and/or organisation listed
Minister of War Transport
Location where the document is written.
Sunderland
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Motor (internal combustion)
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
No
Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.
Internal Combustion Single Acting Four Stroke Cycle Vertical
Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.
1942
Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.
No
Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?
No
Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?
No
A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.
1942
Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.
Sold to British Iron & Steel Corp for Breaking up at Briton Ferry
1942
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