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Date recorded as the time of writing.
07/01/1853
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
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.
M Clark for W Briggs
Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.
Sld
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
No title
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
Y
An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.
Martin Brooks
Location where the document is written.
Sunderland
Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.
Sunderland
Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.
28/01/1853
The name of the port/place of destination given.
London; Jamaica
Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.
Bk - Barque
Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.
Wood
System of admeasurement referred to as ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’ (BM or BOM) in place between 1786 and 1836.
350
Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.
No
Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?
No
Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?
No
Physical extent of a record.
1
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Swanley
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
__/__/1853
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Sunderland
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
4899
The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
London
The individual and/or organisation listed
James Shepherd
Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record
Robert Fowles
Name of surveyor.
Robert Fowles
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
A1 for 13 Years
Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.
Sunderland; London; Jamaica
Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.
undefined
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Sail
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
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.
390
Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?
No
Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).
No
Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.
No
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