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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

14/04/1897

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

Year of ship completion

1897

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

C S Swan & Hunter Ltd

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

Yard no

218

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

Nwc

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

Document identity

Steel Steamer

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

04/08/1896

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

G B Hunter & W T Davey

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

Master

F T Tymons

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Wallsend on Tyne

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/04/1897

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Atlantic

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

3389

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

Also refers to Vessel Neptune

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Ashanti

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

Launch Date

19/02/1897

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

A Claughton

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

Place of build

Newcastle

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

106847

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

Survey number

34703

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

Associated documents

Newcastle 33571

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

08/04/1897

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

Elder Dempster & Co

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

Document author

James McNeil

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

James McNeil

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

Classification

+100A1 Steel; LA & CP; Spar Dk; +LMC 3,97; 1 Dk (Stl) & Spar Dk (Stl) & Deep Framing

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Wallsend on Tyne; Atlantic

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

Ship type

undefined

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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