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Date recorded as the time of writing.
18/10/1940
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
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.
Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Haverton Hill on Tees
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
18079
The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
Middlesbrough
The date of first visit by a surveyor.
14/02/1940
The individual and/or organisation listed
Ministry of Shipping
Location where the document is written.
West Hartlepool
Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.
West Hartlepool; Haverton Hill
Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.
21/02/1941
Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.
Steel
A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).
8028
Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.
Hartlepool
Richardson Westgarth Co
Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?
No
Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).
No
Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.
No
Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
North Atlantic
Physical extent of a record.
1
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Empire Gold
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
04/10/1940
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
325
Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.
Hpl
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
4 Report on Steam Reciprocating Engine Machinery
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
Y
The date of last visit by a surveyor.
16/10/1940
Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record
R J Easthope; Arthur W Oxford; Clive Bell
Name of surveyor.
Clive Bell
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+LMC 1,41; Fitt for Oil Fuel 1,41 &c; FD CL
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Steam
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
No
Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.
Triple Expansion Vertical Surface Condensing
Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.
1940
Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.
No
Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?
No
Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?
No
Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.
Torpedoed & Sunk
Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.
18/04/1945
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