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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/05/1938

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

Year of ship completion

1938

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

Henry Robb Ltd

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

Yard no

242

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Lth

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

20/05/1938

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

Document author

Evan Edwards

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Evan Edwards

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

Classification

+A1 With Freeboard; For Service in the Gulf of Guinea; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 5,38; Oil Eng

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

Ship type

Twin Screw Motor Vessel

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

295

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

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered; Also refers to Vessel Joseph Flint

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

A A Cowan

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

Launch Date

01/12/1937

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

John Ashcroft

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

Place of build

Leith

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

Survey number

19587

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

Port of registry

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

04/02/1937

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

United Africa Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Leith

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Leith

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

03/06/1938

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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