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Date recorded as the time of writing.
02/11/1940
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1940
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.
Lithgows Ltd
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
936
Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.
Grk
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
1 Steel Steamer or Motorship
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
Y
The date of last visit by a surveyor.
31/10/1940
Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record
Kenneth Inglis
Name of surveyor.
Kenneth Inglis
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+100A1 with Freeboard 10,40; +LMC 10,40 Spt FD; Lloyd's A+CP
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Steam
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
No
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
Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.
Torpedoed by aircraft & sunk
Physical extent of a record.
2
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Aircrest
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
23/07/1940
Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.
Lithgows Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Port Glasgow
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
21128
The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.
London
The date of first visit by a surveyor.
23/10/1939
The individual and/or organisation listed
Crest Shipping Co Ltd
Location where the document is written.
Greenock
Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.
Port Glasgow
Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.
22/11/1940
Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.
Steel
A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).
5237
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
Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
Eastern Mediterranean
Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.
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