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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/__/0000

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

Year of ship completion

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.

Shipbuilder

Barclay Curle Co 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

62711

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

First entry?

N

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

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

Area of ship loss

Indian Ocean

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Light

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

Launch Date

05/07/1940

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

Yard no

677

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Gls

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

Document identity

C11 Surveys for Freeboard

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

Document author

T R McIlvenna

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

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

Material of construction

Steel

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

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

15/05/1941

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