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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/01/1938

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

Harland & Wolff Ltd

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

Yard no

974G

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

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

28/12/1937

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

Document author

Thomas Dobson

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

11/01/1938

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

20/05/1941

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

3

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

British Security

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

Launch Date

04/11/1937

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

R J Allen

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

59141

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

26/03/1937

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

British Tanker Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

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

Classification

+100A1; Carrying petroleum in bulk; Lloyd's A & CP; +LMC 12,37; 2DB 150LB oil eng CL

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

Ship type

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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

8470

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

Atlantic

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered; Also refers to Vessels British Power; British Destiny; Boardale; British Integrity & Broomdale

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