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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

31/05/1915

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

Year of ship completion

1915

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

Gray & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

West Hartlepool

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

Survey number

15126

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

14/10/1914

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ellerman Lines Ltd

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

Master

W J Hannaford

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Hartlepool

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

Classification

See Minute fe Rpt Attached

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

Ship type

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

7369

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

Year of engine build

1915

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

Stranded

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

Place of ship loss

Danger Bay, North of Saldanha

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

18/12/1942

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

City of Hankow

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

Launch Date

04/03/1915

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

Yard no

857

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

Report on Boilers

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

First entry?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

29/05/1915

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

Hall Line Ltd

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

Document author

T W Fish

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

West Hartlepool

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

15/06/1915

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

West Hartlepool

Engine builder as written

Central Marine Engine Works

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

Stranded on rocks, wedged & flooded

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

South Africa

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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