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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

27/05/1879

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

Year of ship completion

1869

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

Bowdler, Chaffer & Co

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

Place of build

Liverpool

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

Survey number

23822

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

Other numbers document know by

Liverpool 26529

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

26/05/1879

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

J B Wamsley

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

Document author

Thomas Shilston

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Thomas Shilston

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

Classification

AA1

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Liverpool; China

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

S - Ship

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

Material of construction

Iron

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

786

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

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Surveys for two ships on document. Other ship is Cape Breton; LRF-PUN-IRON485-0325b-R; IRON 23822

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Sorata

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

Launch Date

28/04/1869

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Seacombe

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

Annual Surveys

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Iron 20640

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

27/05/1879

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

Master

Pasley

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Liverpool

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/06/1879

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

China

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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