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Memo from J Eden, ship owner, outlining the specifications, cost, repair and refurbishment history of the vessel Comet, 3 June 1834

Comet

A current reference number/code used to uniquely identify each record.

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-NWC771-0110-L

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Correspondence

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

03/06/1834

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

Year of ship completion

1815

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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

Other numbers document know by

78

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

J Eden

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

South Shields

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

Rig

Sw - Snow

Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.

Fuel

Sail - Rigs

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

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

coal

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

States that the vessel received repairs in 1829 at Yarmouth to a sum of £900; her topsides were renewed at Norway with Norwegian oak, with other repairs to her hull to an overall cost of £500; in 1834 owner states that the vessel was totally dismasted in April of the coal taken to Hull and there remasted, rigged and provided with new sails

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Comet

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Document identity

Memo

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

First entry?

U

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

Document author

J Eden

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Sunderland, Yarmouth; Norway; Hull

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

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

Material of construction

Wood

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

Gross Register Tonnage

240

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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