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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

11/06/1923

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

Year of ship completion

1923

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

Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd

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

Place of build

Newcastle on Tyne

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 Hull & Equipment

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

Port of registry

Newcastle

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

07/12/1922

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Glen Line Ltd

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

Document author

J Ferguson; P Fisher King; John Flemming

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

22/08/1913

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

1906

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 Steel Co of Canada for Breaking up

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Elgin

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

Launch Date

03/04/1923

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

Yard no

1144

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

KNVD

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

Survey number

1650

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

Other numbers document know by

No 1650; No in Register Book 2909

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

26/04/1923

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

J Tinmouth

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

BS Asterisk; Great Lakes & River St Lawrence

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

Canada

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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