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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

17/07/1941

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

Year of ship completion

1941

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

Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Haverton Hill on Tees

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

Survey number

17082

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Middlesbrough

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

21/05/1941

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of Shipping

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

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

Classification

See Mdb F E 17081

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

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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

8031

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

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

Hoboken

Draft

1941

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Empire Gold

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Sapphire

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

Launch Date

27/05/1941

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

Yard no

329

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Mdb

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

Document identity

13 Report on Electrical Equipment

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

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

16/07/1941

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

Document author

G Auterson; James M Robertson

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Haverton Hill on Tees

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

19/08/1941

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1941

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold to Omer Bulens for Breaking up at Hoboken

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

Belgium

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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