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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

11/01/1943

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

Year of ship completion

1943

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 Ltd

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

101040

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

South Shields

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

02/06/1942

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

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

Classification

See Nwc FE 101040

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

6140

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

Year of engine build

1943

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

Broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Bruges

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Fortune

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

Launch Date

09/11/1942

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

Yard no

531

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

5a Report on Boilers

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

11/01/1943

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

Document author

J H Matthews

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

South Shields

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

05/03/1943

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

South Shields

Engine builder as written

John Readhead & Sons 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 for Breaking up, Demolition Commenced

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

25/01/1962

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