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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/05/1944

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

Year of ship completion

1944

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

John Readhead & Sons

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

Place of build

South Shields

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

Survey number

3591

Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.

Other numbers document know by

No 3176; No in Register Book 5310

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

20/05/1944

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

Neldrum & Swinson Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sunderland

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

Classification

BS Asterisk (With Freeboard)

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

FA - Fore & Aft

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

6140

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 Shipbreakers

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

This is a British Corporation document. Vessel was classed by the British Corporation

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Chepman

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

Launch Date

__/05/1944

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

Yard no

539

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sld

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

Document identity

British Corporation Register of Shipping & Aircraft Report of Hull & Equipment

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

Port of registry

South Shields

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

19/02/1943

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

M O W T

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

Document author

Reginald Tbison; J L Adam; M C Carter

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/08/1944

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

To be broken up

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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