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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

22/09/1948

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

Year of ship completion

1943

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

Kaiser Co Inc

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

Place of build

Swan Island

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

Document identity

British Corporation Register of Shipping & Aircraft Survey for Freeboard LL 4 C

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

Moller Lines S A (Pty) Ltd

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

Classification

BS (Tanker); Oils FP Below 150 F

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

Ship type

Tanker

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

10682

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

1948

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

Alpha Limpopo

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

Launch Date

__/__/1943

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

Yard no

10

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

Survey number

3003

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

Port of registry

Durban

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Alpha South African Steam Ship Co

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

Document author

M C Carter

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/10/1948

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)

r 1948

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

8

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