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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

20/01/1943

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

Year of ship completion

1939

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

Aktieselskabet Burmeister & Wains Maskin Og Skibsbyggeri

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

Place of build

Copenhagen

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

Survey number

19108

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

11/01/1943

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Union Cold Storage Co Ltd

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

Document author

A J McCowan; Albert A Quant

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sydney N S W

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

07/05/1943

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

8293

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

Year of engine build

1939

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

20/03/1943

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Canadian Star

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

Launch Date

20/10/1938

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

Yard no

640

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Syd

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

Document identity

9 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

16/01/1943

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

Blue Star Line Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sydney N S W

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

Classification

+100A1 with Freeboard 11,41; +LMC 2,39; TS CL; +Lloyds RMC 10,42; No 5 Upper Tween Dk Chambers Core temp 5F; All of the Chambers core temp 15F

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

Copenhagen

Engine builder as written

Akt 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

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

Area of ship loss

North Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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