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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

14/04/1942

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

Year of ship completion

1942

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

Todd California Shipbuilding Division of the Permanente Metals Corp

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

Yard no

16

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Ric

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

14/04/1942

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

Document author

F C Cocks; J L Rennie

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Richmond California

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

01/07/1942

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

7174

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

__/01/1963

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered; Also refers to vessels Ocean Vanguard; Ocean Vigil; Ocean Voice; Ocean Venture; Ocean Viking; Ocean Vestal; Ocean Vesper; Ocean Valley; Ocean Vision; Ocean Vulcan; Ocean Valour; Ocean Venus; Ocean Vigour; Ocean Vanity & Ocean Vintage

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Ocean Volunteer

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

Launch Date

15/03/1942

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Todd California Shipbuilding Division of the Permanente Metals Corporation

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

Place of build

Richmond, California

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

Survey number

16

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

22/12/1941

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

H M Government in the United Kingdom

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Richmond California

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

Classification

+100A1 with Freeboard; +LMC 4,42; Note Elec Welded; Cruiser Stern A & CP; DF; ESD; 3 SB (Spt) 220 lbs; Elec Light; CL

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

Broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Osaka

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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