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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/04/1855

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

Year of ship completion

1853

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

Walter Hood & Co

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

Annual Surveys

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Aberdeen

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

09/04/1855

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Adamson

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

Document author

John F Light

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

John F Light

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

Classification

10A1; Record YM

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)

807

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

Granite City

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

Launch Date

__/__/1853

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

Place of build

Aberdeen

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

Survey number

19624

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

Associated documents

Aberdeen 1549

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

12/04/1855

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

Master

W Leaste

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

London

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

27/04/1855

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)

771

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 Margaret West; LRF-PUN-LON635-0513b-R; London 19624

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