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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

02/03/1925

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

Year of ship completion

1925

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

Yarrow & Co Ltd

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

Yard no

1497

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

Survey number

44463

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

Associated documents

Glasgow 43967

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

27/02/1925

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

Document author

W J Craig

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Scotstoun

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

03/03/1925

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

War Loss

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/01/1942

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Tien Kwang

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

Launch Date

10/01/1925

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

H W D

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Scotstoun

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Gls

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

Port of registry

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

19/08/1924

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Asiatic Petroleum Co; North China Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

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

Classification

+A-; 2,25 for service on the Yangtsze river; Carrying Petroleum in bulk; B & MS 3,25 FD; Fitted for Oil fuel 3,25; FP above 150F

Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.

Ship type

Twin Screw Steamer

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

731

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

Lost Owing to War Causes

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of Document has been Altered; Also mentions sister vessel Shu Kwang

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