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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

25/02/1938

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

Year of ship completion

1937

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

The Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Yard no

431

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Grk

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

Document identity

Steel Steamer

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

25/02/1938

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

Cayzer Irvine & Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Greenock

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

Classification

+100A1 with Freeboard 2,38; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 2,38; FD; Fitted for Oil Fuel 2,38 FP Above 150F

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

Ship type

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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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1938

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

Place of ship loss

Indian Ocean

Draft

1938

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessels Clan Cameron; Clan Chattan & Clan Cumming

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Clan Buchanan

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

Launch Date

21/12/1937

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

The Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Greenock

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

Survey number

20514

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

Port of registry

Glasgow

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

19/04/1937

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Clan Line Steamers Ltd

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

Document author

H L Swinton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Greenock

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

01/03/1938

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

7266

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

Sunk by Raider

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

13/05/1941

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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