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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

06/02/1936

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

Year of ship completion

1936

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

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Birkenhead

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

Survey number

106781

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Winterthur 132; Winterthur 133

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

06/02/1936

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

Document author

J E Milton; S Townend

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Birkenhead

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

25/02/1936

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

11168

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Winterthur, Switzerland

Engine builder as written

Sulzer Bros Ltd

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

Cape Frio

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

29/11/1942

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Dunedin Star

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

Launch Date

29/10/1935

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

Yard no

1009

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Liv

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

Document identity

4b Report on Oil Engine Machinery

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

04/07/1935

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Blue Star Line Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

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

Classification

+LMC 2,36 CL; Elec Light

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Sulzer Solid Injection

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

Year of engine build

1936

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

Struck a submerged object & beached

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

Area of ship loss

South West Africa

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Refrigerated & general

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