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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

31/12/1956

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

Year of ship completion

1956

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

W J Yarwood & Sons Ltd

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

Yard no

900

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Liv

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

31/12/1956

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

Document author

J A Cheyne; J R Wright

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Northwich

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

05/02/1957

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

303

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

Stranded on Rocks, declared Total Loss

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

31/01/1962

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

3

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

B P Explorer

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

Launch Date

27/09/1956

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

J Buchanan

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

Place of build

Northwich, Cheshire

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

Survey number

146115

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

28/10/1954

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Shell Mex & B P Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

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

Classification

Carr Pet in Bulk; +100A1 for Service in Bristol Channel Limiting fort Scaward Swansea Schneider Propeller Cruiser Steam; Lloyd\'s A & CP; P & Elec Welded; Longitudinal Framing at Bottom Deck Trink

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

Wrecked

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

Place of ship loss

Bristol

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessels W J Yarwood & B P Manufacturer

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