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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/10/1918

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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

Charles Connell & Co Ltd

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

Yard no

388

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

Steel Steamer

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

04/10/1918

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

Gow Harrison & Co

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

Document author

Henry A Gibbs; George Nicol

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

George Nicol

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

Classification

+100A1 10,18; Carrying Fuel Oil in Bulk FP Above 150 F; Lloyd's A & CP; +LMC 10,18; FD; Fitted for Oil Fuel 10,18 FP above 150 F

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

Sunk

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

Area of ship loss

Indian Ocean

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Fuel Oil in Bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to vessel War Singer

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

War Cateran

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

Launch Date

03/09/1918

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

William Charles Connell

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

38226

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

24/05/1917

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Shipping Controller

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

Master

T C Thomas

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

15/10/1918

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

5261

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

12/06/1944

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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