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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/07/1944

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

Year of ship completion

1944

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

The Grangemounth Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Grangemounth

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

Survey number

3573

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

Other numbers document know by

No 3359; No in Register Book 5312

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

17/05/1944

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

F T Edward & Son

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

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

Classification

BS Asterisk (Bulk Oil Carrier)

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

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

Place of ship loss

Brussels

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

B P Distributor

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

Launch Date

29/02/1944

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

Yard no

455

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Gls

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

Document identity

British Corporation Register of Shipping & Aircraft Report of Hull & Equipment

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

Port of registry

Grangemouth

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

19/10/1943

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

R N Hunter; J L Adam; M C Carter

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/08/1944

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

797

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 Scrappingco SA for Breaking up at Brussels

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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