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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/05/1924

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

Year of ship completion

1924

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

77854

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

First entry?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

12/05/1924

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

Document author

J Harbottle

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Jarrow on Tyne

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/05/1924

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

Material of construction

Steel

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Triple Expansion

Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.

Year of engine build

1924

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

To be broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Spezia

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel British Ambassador

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

British Duchess

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

Launch Date

06/03/1924

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

Yard no

549

Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.

Port of survey abbreviations

Nwc

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

Document identity

4 Report on Machinery

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

23/10/1922

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

British Tanker Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle

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

Classification

+LMC 5,24; FD; CL; Fitted for Oil Fuel 5,24; Fp above 150 F

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Newcastle

Engine builder as written

Palmers Ship Building & Engineering Co Ltd

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

Sold to Indian Trading Cy Vaduz for Breaking up at Spezia

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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