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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

14/06/1955

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

Year of ship completion

1955

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

Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd

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

Yard no

491

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

Place of build

Dundee

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Dun

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

06/06/1955

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

Watts Watts & Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Dundee

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Dundee

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

28/06/1955

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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)

1955

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Woolwich

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

Launch Date

08/02/1955

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

W C Paulin

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Caledon

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

GRWC

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

Survey number

9974

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

Port of registry

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

21/10/1953

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Britain Steamship Co Ltd

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

Document author

J H Tait

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

J H Tait

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

Classification

+100A1; Lloyd\'s A & CP; Longitudinal framing at bottom; +LMC 6,55; Oil Engine with torsional endorsement; 2 DB - 150 lb

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

7669

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

1955

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of the Document has been Altered; Also refers to vessel Wokingham

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