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Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c for Beckenham, 22nd October 1953

Beckenham

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Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W1644-0151-W

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

Document type

Wreck Report

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

Place of build

Dundee

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

22/10/1953

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

Year of ship completion

1937

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

The Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Dundee

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 that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

Watts Watts & Co Ltd

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

27/10/1953

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Wrecked

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

Area of ship loss

Kara Sea

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Beckenham

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

Launch Date

02/09/1937

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

Yard no

367

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

Document identity

Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Britain Steam Ship Co Ltd

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

Classification

+100A1 with Freeboard 8,52; S S Shl 12,51; +LMC 12,51; BS 12,52; TS 11,51 CL; Fitted for Oil Fuel 12,51 FP above 150F

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

4906

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

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Stranded, Broke in two

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

07/10/1953

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