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Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c for Empire Oberon, 21st October 1959

Empire Oberon

A current reference number/code used to uniquely identify each record.

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-002568-002576-0163-W

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Wreck Report

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

Place of build

Hessle

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

21/10/1959

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

Year of ship completion

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.

Shipbuilder

Henry Scarr Ltd

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

Place of build

Hessle

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 individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/11/1959

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

242

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

Capsized & Sank

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

07/09/1959

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Oberon

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

Launch Date

24/11/1942

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

Yard no

424

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

Survey number

15239

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

First entry?

N

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

Classification

+100A1; Tug 2,59; SS 12,56; +LMC 12,56; BS M 12,58; TS 2,59 OG

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Foundered

Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Area of ship loss

River Hooghly

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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