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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/01/1942

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

Barclay Curle & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

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

02/01/1942

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

Document author

T R McIlvenna

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

13/01/1942

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

6852

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

North Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Umaria

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

Launch Date

17/10/1941

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

Yard no

684

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

BCWZ

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

Survey number

64917

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

05/02/1941

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

British India Steam Navigation Co 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

+100A1 1,42 with freeboard; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 1,42 FD

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

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

30/03/1943

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of document has been altered; Also refers to vessel Urlana

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