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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

20/03/1854

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

Year of ship completion

1854

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

Fletcher

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

Place of build

London

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

Survey number

18733

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

__/07/1853

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Fletcher & Co

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

Document author

James Martin

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

James Martin

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

07/03/1862

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

H M Transport Service

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

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)

1134

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

Caduceus

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

Launch Date

__/__/1854

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Henry Fletcher Son & Fearnall

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Lon

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

Document identity

No title

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

20/03/1854

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

Master

John Cass

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

London

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

London; H M Transport Service

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

Wood

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

Gross Register Tonnage (OM)

1005

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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