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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/09/1926

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

Year of ship completion

1926

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

Smith's Dock Co Ltd

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

Place of build

South Bank on Tees

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

Survey number

1967

Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.

Other numbers document know by

No 1977; No in Register Book 3297

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

30/08/1926

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

Charles Salvesen & Co

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

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

Classification

BS Asterisk for Whaling Purposes

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

316

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

1926

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

Sposa

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

Launch Date

10/05/1926

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

Yard no

826

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Mdb

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

Document identity

British Corporation for the Survey & Registry of Shipping Report of Hull & Equipment

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

Port of registry

Leith

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

12/02/1926

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The South Georgia Co Ltd

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

Document author

John Aitken; P Fisher King; John Flemming

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Southbank

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/10/1926

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 1926

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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