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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/10/1937

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

Year of ship completion

1937

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

Smith's Dock Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Southbank on Tees

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

Survey number

2683

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

Other numbers document know by

No 2617; No in Register Book 4239

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

18/10/1937

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

Document author

R M Balls; George M Luke; J L Adam; M C Carter

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Middlesbrough

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

12/01/1938

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

South Bank on Tees

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

Sunk

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

Place of ship loss

Leith Harbour

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/09/1964

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

Sorsra

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

Launch Date

06/09/1937

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

Yard no

1042

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Mdb

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 Machinery

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

Port of registry

Leith

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

18/03/1937

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The South Georgia Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

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

Classification

MBS Asterisk

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

Ship type

Whale Catcher

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 Surface Condensing Reciprocating Steam Engine

Engine builder as written

Smith\'s Dock & 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

Sunk by Exceptionally Heavy Snow Storm

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

Area of ship loss

South Georgia

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

26

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