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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/__/0000

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

Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

GTWX

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

Survey number

105723

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

Port of registry

London

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Anglo American Oil Co Ltd

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

Document author

Stephen P Rooke

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

04/02/1949

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

10712

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 for Breaking up in Belgium

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Esso Purfleet

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

Launch Date

__/__/1944

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

Place of build

Chester, Pennsylvania

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

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 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

Esso Transportation Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle

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

Classification

+100A1; Without Spl Cond; Carrying Petroleum in Bulk; Fitted for Oil Fuel above 150 F; S (CL) 10,48; 11,48 Nwc; S S Nwc 11,48; Classed 11,48; LMC 12,47; Spl 464 lb; 2 WTB 500 lb; FD

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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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

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

2

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