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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

23/04/1917

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

Year of ship completion

1917

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

Union Iron Works Co

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

Yard no

139

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

Port of survey abbreviations

S.Fo

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

Document identity

Steel Steamer

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

21/04/1917

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

Master

D Arnesen

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

San Francisco

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

Classification

+100A1; Shelt Dk Wfbd; +LMC 4,17; Fitted for Oil Fuel 4,17; FP above 150 F

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Alameda California; Sweden

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

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)

1917

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

3

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Bessa

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

Launch Date

20/01/1917

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Geo A Armes

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

Place of build

Alameda California

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

Survey number

2475

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Tonsberg

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

27/07/1916

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Norwegian Africa Australian Line

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

Document author

J S Blackett; Arnold Bennett

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Alameda

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

03/05/1917

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Sweden

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

Rig

Sr - Schooner

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

6249

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

1917

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Talabot

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