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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

11/02/1891

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

Year of ship completion

1890

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

Richardson, Duck & Co

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

Place of build

Stockton

A unique number allocated to a specific vessel by an official registration authority of the country of registry (flag) that the vessel belongs to (post. 1855).

Official number

98890

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

Survey number

333

The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.

Country of registration

United Kingdom

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

05/02/1891

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

Carlisle & Co

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

Document author

Robert Haig; Jesse Williams

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Robert Haig; Jesse Williams

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

Classification

100A1 steel pt awng dk subject freeboard; 1 dk (pt stl & pt iron) & web frames; pt awng dk (iron); +LMC 1/91; a & cp

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

River Plate

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

A ship’s total internal capacity of a ship measured in register tons from the top of the floors to the tonnage deck.

Under Deck Tonnage

1876

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

Prescribed by flag/registration authorities, and usually excludes a small part of the stern. It is measured from the foreside of the stern at the extreme top to the afterside of the stern post.

Registered Length

297

Measurement from the underside of the upper deck on the centre line to the upper side of the bottom plating.

Registered Depth

25.9

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Vala - 1890

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

Launch Date

09/12/1890

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

Yard no

383

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Mdb

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

Document identity

Iron or Steel Ship

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

27/08/1890

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Vala Steamship Co Ltd

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

Master

Thomas Ball

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Stockton-on-Tees

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

17/02/1891

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

Cargo

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

2536

Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.

Net Register Tonnage

1623

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

Also referred to as extreme breadth. The distance from the extreme starboard side to the extreme port side.

Registered Beam

40.1

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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