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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/11/1877

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

Year of ship completion

1836

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

J B Balley

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Irn

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

Document identity

Report of Survey for Repairs of Engines and Boiler

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Southampton

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

26/11/1877

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

Master

G Larmer

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Southampton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Southampton

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

15/01/1878

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Wood

System of admeasurement referred to as ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’ (BM or BOM) in place between 1786 and 1836.

Gross Register Tonnage (OM)

1258

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Kinghorn

Engine builder as written

J Key

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

African

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

Launch Date

__/06/1836

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

Place of build

Shoreham

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

Survey number

19906

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

Other numbers document know by

Southampton 36871

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

First entry?

N

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Union Steam Ship Co

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

Document author

William Parker

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

William Parker

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

Classification

100A1 12,77; S S No 1-77

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

System of measurement that replaced ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’, taking a vessel’s internal capacity as the standard. Vessels built between 1836 and 1854 were legally required to display both tonnages.

Gross Register Tonnage (NM)

2019

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

Year of engine build

1873

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

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