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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

24/09/1948

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

Year of ship completion

1915

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

Harland & Wolff Ltd

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

Survey number

4396

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

Port of registry

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

28/07/1948

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Jenny Steamship Co Ltd

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

Document author

M Caldwell

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Rio de Janeiro

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

17/11/1948

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

6226

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

Year of engine build

1915

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Damaged by explosion & fire

Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Rio de Janeiro

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

28/07/1948

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

River Swift

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

Launch Date

19/01/1915

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

Yard no

466G

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Rio

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

Document identity

Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines & Boilers

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

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

24/09/1948

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

G J Livanos

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Rio de Janeiro

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

Classification

See Rpt 8

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Glasgow

Engine builder as written

Burmeister & Wain

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

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Cargo was burning, two explosions occured, further fire broke out, abandoned

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

Brazil

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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