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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

19/03/1948

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

Year of ship completion

1948

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

Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Survey number

105154

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

06/06/1946

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

United Africa Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

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

Classification

+LMC 3,48; Fitted for Oil Fuel 3,48 Flash Point above 150F FD CL; 3SB 220 lb Spt

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

Ship type

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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

Triple Expansion Re Heat

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

Year of engine build

1948

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

Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Borriana

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Matadian

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

Launch Date

16/09/1947

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

Yard no

776

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

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

19/03/1948

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

Document author

A Watt; T Grieve

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Wallsend; Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

30/04/1948

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

undefined

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Wallsend

Engine builder as written

North Eastern Marine Engineering 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 to Spanish Shipbreakers for Breaking up at Borriana

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

Country of loss or disposal

Spain

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Sussex Trader

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