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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

19/08/1957

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

Year of ship completion

1926

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

Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Hong Kong

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

Survey number

30253

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Sydney 30269; Melbourne 15338

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

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

10/08/1957

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

Document author

T Nell; I M Petrie

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sydney N S W

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

19/09/1957

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

4324

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 Hong Kong Salvage & Towage Co Ltd for Breaking up at Hong Kong

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

3

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Taiping

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

Launch Date

11/06/1925

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

Yard no

619

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Syd

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

Document identity

8 Report of Ship Surveys & Repairs

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

Port of registry

Hong Kong

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

30/07/1957

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Australian Oriental Line Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sydney N S W

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

Classification

See Mel 15338

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

To be broken up

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

Hong Kong

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