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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

14/05/1930

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

Year of ship completion

1930

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

J Samuel White & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

East Cowes

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

Survey number

13919

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

02/07/1930

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

London County Council

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Southampton

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

Classification

+LMC 5,30

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

Ferry

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Steel

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

Engine type

2 Independent Inclined Type Paddle Engines

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

Year of engine build

1930

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

Bruges

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

John Benn

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

Launch Date

29/01/1930

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

Yard no

1685

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sou

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

Document identity

4 Report on Steam Reciprocating Engine 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

08/05/1930

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

Document author

L R Horne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Cowes

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/05/1930

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Cowes

Engine builder as written

J Samuel White & Co Ltd

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

__/08/1963

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Will Crooks

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