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Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c for Wairuna, 8th November 1945

Wairuna

A current reference number/code used to uniquely identify each record.

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W290-0152-W

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Wreck Report

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

Place of build

Flensburg

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/11/1945

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

Year of ship completion

1914

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

Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft

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

Place of build

Flensburg

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

First entry?

N

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

J J Denholm Ltd

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

09/11/1945

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

5832

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

Scuttled

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/10/1945

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Wairuna

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

Launch Date

13/11/1913

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

Yard no

334

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

Document identity

Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

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

Classification

+100A1 8,44; S S 2nd 3-3,40; +LMC 3,40; B S 3,44; TS 8,44 CL; Carrying Oil Fuel FP above 150F in DB

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

North Atlantic

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

oil fuel

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