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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/06/1924

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

Year of ship completion

1924

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

Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Hebburn on Tyne

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

Survey number

1762

Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.

Other numbers document know by

No 1967; No in Register Book 3052

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

18/06/1924

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

Holland Indian Trade

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

MBS Asterisk

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Engine builder as written

Palmers Ship Building & Iron 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 British Iron & Steel Corp for Breaking up at Inverkeithing

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Melampus

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

Launch Date

04/04/1924

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

Yard no

938

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

British Corporation for the Survey & Registry of Shipping Report of Machinery

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

Port of registry

Amsterdam

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

09/05/1923

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappy Oceaan

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

Document author

Hugh Hill; John Lundgren; P Fisher King; John Fleming

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

04/03/1925

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

Material of construction

Steel

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Jarrow

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

Inverkeithing

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

This is a British Corporation Document. Vessel has been classed by British Corporation

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