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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

03/05/1888

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

Year of ship completion

1888

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

MacIlwaine Lewis & Co

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

Yard no

28

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Bel

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

Document identity

Report on Machinery

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

03/05/1888

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

Master

S R S Nelson

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Belfast

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

Classification

+LMC 5/88

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Triple Expansion Three Cranks

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

Year of engine build

1888

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Titanic

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

Launch Date

03/03/1888

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

H MacColl

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

Place of build

Belfast

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

Survey number

3422

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Glasgow

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

31/03/1887

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

William Service

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

Document author

James Maxton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Belfast

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

11/05/1888

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

1608

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Belfast

Engine builder as written

MacIlwaine Lewis & 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

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