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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/01/1934

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

Year of ship completion

1933

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

Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Haverton Hill on Tees

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

Bideford

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

07/02/1933

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Reardon Smith Line Ltd

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

Master

D C Linnie

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

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

Ship type

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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

4928

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

1934

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

This is a British Corporation Document. Vessel has been classed by British Corporation; Also refers to Vessel Cindrella

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Devon City

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

Launch Date

04/10/1933

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

Yard no

227

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

MBKL

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

Survey number

2475

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

Other numbers document know by

No 2342; No in Register Book 3954

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

13/12/1933

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

Sir William Smith & Sons Ltd

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

Document author

John Aitken; P Fisher King; M C Carter

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Middlesbrough

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

14/03/1934

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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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)

y 1934

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

48

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