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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

10/05/1881

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

Year of ship completion

1881

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

Raylton Dixon & Co

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

Place of build

Middlesbrough

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Stk

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

Document identity

Iron Ship

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Bristol

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

King Bros

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

Document author

Frederick W Bonniwell

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Frederick W Bonniwell

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

Classification

100A1 +LMC

The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.

Voyage from

Middlesbrough

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

920

Description/specifications listed of the vessel’s engines and machinery. (The engines/machinery may have been surveyed separately before being assigned to a vessel).

Engine/Machinery details

Compound inverted surface condensing

The country, at the time of writing, where a vessel’s engines were constructed.

Country of engine build

United Kingdom

Engine builder as written

T Richardson & Sons Ltd

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

Depth of vessel at ship’s side from the highest point of the upper deck to the lowest point of the keel.

Extreme Depth

17.58

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

223.00

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

Registered Depth

17.50

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Iron Acton

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

Launch Date

22/03/1881

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

Yard no

183

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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

Survey number

4630

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

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

Master

Simpson

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Middlesbrough

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

24/05/1881

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Mediterranean

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

Material of construction

Iron

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

Gross Register Tonnage

1148

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

732

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Stockton

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

Year of engine build

1881

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

Horsepower registered

99

Length of a ship along the summer load line from the vessel’s stem to the sternpost.

Length between perpendiculars

223.66

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

Registered Beam

32.50

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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