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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

04/01/1938

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

Year of ship completion

1937

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

Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co

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

Place of build

Chester, Pennsylvania

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

Survey number

7418

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Wilmington, De

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

02/04/1937

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Texas Oil Co

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Philadelphia

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Chester Pennsylvania; Carteret New Jersey

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

26/01/1938

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Chester Pennsylvania

Engine builder as written

Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Co

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

1938

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Rhode Island

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

Launch Date

19/10/1937

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

Yard no

165

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Phl

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

Document identity

5c Report on Water Tube Boilers

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

21/12/1937

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

Document author

William Runham

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

William Runham

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

Classification

1 WT DB (Exhaust Gas Fixed) 227 lbs

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

Ship type

Screw Motor Vessel

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

8562

Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.

Year of engine build

1937

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)

1938

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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