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Memo submitting Barrow Surveyors be informed that further plan of Austin Switchgear to be submitted, further information on Ozonair equipment showing arrangement & circuits with particulars of voltage & safeguards for Orcades, 9th December 1936

Orcades

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LRF-PUN-W204-0161-L

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

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Letters/Correspondence

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

Place of build

Barrow

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

09/12/1936

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

Vickers Armstrongs Ltd

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

Document identity

Memo

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

Document author

G O Watson; R I Murchison

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Steel

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Orcades

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

Launch Date

01/12/1936

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

Place of build

Barrow

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

First entry?

N

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

11/10/1942

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