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Form for Vessels of 100 Tons & Upwards for Grayburn, 13th September 1938

Grayburn

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Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W169-0009-F

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Document type

Form

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

13/09/1938

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

Year of ship completion

1938

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

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

Document identity

GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards

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

William Muir Young

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

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

6342

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

Year of engine build

1938

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

Sunk

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

Area of ship loss

Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Grayburn

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

Launch Date

25/07/1938

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

Yard no

721

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

GNNR

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

London

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Wallem & Co Ltd

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

Master

Joseph Miller Wilson

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 Direct Acting Vertical

Engine builder as written

George Clark (1938) 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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sunk by Submarine

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

29/06/1941

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