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Report on Boilers for Empire Commerce, 5th April 1943

Empire Commerce

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Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W1185-0025-R

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Report

Name of the survey office responsible for inspecting a vessel, and linked to the port of survey abbreviation used.

Survey office

Sunderland

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/04/1943

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

Year of ship completion

1942

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

Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Survey number

33668

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Sunderland

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

05/04/1943

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

Document author

W H Fraser; L R Horne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

28/04/1943

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Sunderland

Engine builder as written

Doxford & Sons 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 area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Area of ship loss

Mediterranean

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Commerce

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

Launch Date

23/12/1942

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

Yard no

748

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sld

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

Document identity

5a Report on Boilers

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sunderland

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

Classification

See FE Machy Rpt

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

3722

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

Year of engine build

1943

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

Torpedoed, Broke In Two, Sank

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/10/1943

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