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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/09/1895

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

Year of ship completion

1895

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

J Readhead & Sons

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

Place of build

South Shields

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

Document identity

Form no 19 - General Registrar

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

First entry?

N

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

John Bowring Wimble

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

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

Rig

Sr - Schooner

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

2796

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

South Shields

Engine builder as written

John Readhead & Sons

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

Adra

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

Launch Date

24/08/1895

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

Yard no

309

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

105739

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

London

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The English & American Shipping Co Ltd

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

Master

Ernest Cox

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Direct Acting Inverted Triple Expansion

Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.

Year of engine build

1895

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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