Document
Document
  • Related documents Related
  • Full details Details
  • Report document? Report?
?

Use the data export button to extract customised data sets from the Ship Plan and Survey Report Collection. Available in TSV and CSV formats.

Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

20/05/1925

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

Year of ship completion

1925

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

Robert Duncan & Co Ltd

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

Yard no

357

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Grk

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

Port of registry

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

23/06/1924

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Oriel Shipping Co Ltd

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

Document author

Robert Dunsmuir

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Robert Dunsmuir

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

Classification

+100A1 5,25; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 5,25 FD; Intermediate Tween Dk AH in after hold dispensed with - 5 BH to Upper DK 1 BH to 2nd DK only

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

Ship type

undefined

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

5050

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

Draft

1925

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been altered; Also refers to vessels Saint Oswald & Luciston

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Benicia

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

Launch Date

24/03/1925

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Alex Kelly

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

Place of build

Port Glasgow

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

Survey number

18399

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Greenock 18353; Greenock 18323

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

19/05/1925

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

John Edgar & Co

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Greenock

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Port Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

26/05/1925

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1925

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Report an issue with this document

Have you noticed missing or incorrect data or images for this document?
Please let us know and we will rectify the issue as soon as possible.