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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/08/1941

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

Year of ship completion

1941

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

Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Haverton Hill on Tees

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

Survey number

18181

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Middlesbrough

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

10/06/1940

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Hartlepool

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

West Hartlepool; Haverton

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

23/09/1941

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Engine type

Triple Expansion Vertical Surface Condensing

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

Year of engine build

1941

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

Left New Orleans for Freetown; Missing

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

06/04/1942

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Amethyst

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

Launch Date

08/07/1941

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

Yard no

330

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Hpl

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

Document identity

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.

First entry?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

08/08/1941

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

Document author

Clive Bell; R J Easthope

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Clive Bell

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

Classification

+LMC 8,41; Fitted for Oil Fuel &c; FD; CL

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

8032

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Hartlepool

Engine builder as written

Richardson Westgarth & Co

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

Lost between New Orleans & Freetown

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

oil fuel

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