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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/04/1906

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

Year of ship completion

1906

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

Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd

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

Yard no

752

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Nwc

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?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

03/04/1906

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

Master

George Arnold

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle on Tyne

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/04/1906

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

Sr - Schooner

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

1087

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 Mine

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

Area of ship loss

South East Coast

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Mersey

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

Launch Date

23/02/1906

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

J Dunham Charstie

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

Place of build

Newcastle on Tyne

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

Survey number

50478

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Goole

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

16/10/1905

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Lancastire & Yorkshire Railway Co

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

Document author

B C Laws; James McNeil

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

James McNeil

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

Classification

+100A1; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 4,06; FD; Elec Light

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

Ship type

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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 (war loss)

Number of lives lost

14

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

20/04/1940

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