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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

01/12/1943

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

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

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

Yard no

1106

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Liv

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

25/11/1943

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

British Tanker Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

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

Classification

+100A1; Carrying Oil Fuel in bulk Fp above 150F; Longitudinal Framing at Bottom & at deck; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 11,43; CL FD DBS Fitted for Oil Fuel &c; Oil Engines DF ESD GVC

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

Faslane

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

oil fuel

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered; Also refers to Vessels British Tradition; British Promise & British Restraint

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire MacColl

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

Launch Date

21/07/1943

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Birkenhead

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

Survey number

120372

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

Port of registry

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

28/10/1941

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

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

Document author

A W Jackson; Thomas J Roberts

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Birkenhead

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

21/12/1943

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

9133

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

27/08/1962

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

3

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