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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/03/1919

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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

American International Corporation

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

Yard no

503

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

Place of build

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Phl

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

Document identity

Steel Steamer

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Philadelphia

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

29/04/1918

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp

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

Document author

J M Ferguson; R D Cairus

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Hog Island Pa

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

11/03/1942

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

5784

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

United States Atlantic Coast

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

25/04/1942

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to sister vessel Prusa

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Sapinero

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

Launch Date

22/11/1918

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

McBrush

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Hog Island

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

LPTB

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

Survey number

3134

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

Associated documents

Philadelphia 3131

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

04/03/1919

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

H A Thompson

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Philadelphia

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

Classification

+100A1; +LMC 3,19; fitted for Oil fuel 3,19; FP above 150 F

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

United States of America

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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