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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/08/1958

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

Year of ship completion

1945

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

Harland & Wolff Ltd

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

Place of build

Govan

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

First entry?

N

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

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

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Gambia

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

Launch Date

__/__/1945

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

Yard no

1285G

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

Document identity

Letter

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

Document author

C E Peacock

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

C E Peacock

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

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