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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

02/05/1938

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

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

Place of build

Leith

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

Document identity

GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

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

Aubrey Rollo Ibbetson Mellor

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

Ship type

Cargo

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Diesel Four Stroke Cycle Single Acting Direct Acting Vertical

Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.

Year of engine build

1937

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

1

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

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

Yard no

242

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

MMKV

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

Port of registry

London

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The United Africa Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

Sp - Sloop

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

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Cologne

Engine builder as written

Motorenfabric Deutz

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

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