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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/11/1948

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

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

Report on Steam Turbine Machinery

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

08/11/1948

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

Document author

D D McIntyre

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Wallsend

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

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Engine builder as written

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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

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

Survey number

105723

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

28/09/1948

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Anglo American Oil 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

See Minute on FE Machy Rpt

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Two Single Reduction Geared Impulse Turbine (Aux)

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

Year of engine build

1944

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

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