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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

31/08/1918

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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 & Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Yard no

387

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

31/08/1918

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

Anglo Mexican Petroleum Co Ltd

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

Document author

J D Mares

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Greenock

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

03/09/1918

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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sunk by Submarine

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

Country of loss or disposal

Spain

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Fuel Oil in Bulk

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

War Briton

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

Launch Date

23/07/1918

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

The Greenock & Grangemouth 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

17344

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

07/06/1917

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Shipping Controller

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

Master

Harrison

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 8,18; Carrying fuel Oil in Bulk FP above 150F; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 8,18 FD; Fitted for Oil Fuel 8,18 FP above 150F

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

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

5191

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 place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Madeira

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

12/09/1940

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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