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Report of Survey for Repairs, &c, of Engines & Boilers for Empire Cormorant, 12th September 1945

Empire Cormorant

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

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W296-0149-R

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

Document type

Report

Name of the survey office responsible for inspecting a vessel, and linked to the port of survey abbreviation used.

Survey office

Cardiff

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

Place of build

Portland Oregon

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/09/1945

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

Northwest Steel Co

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

Place of build

Portland Oregon

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

Survey number

55366

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

London 112912

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

01/10/1945

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

R Chapman & Son

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Cardiff

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

Classification

Deferred

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

Rig

S - Ship

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

5821

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

Year of engine build

1918

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 by Government Order

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/10/1945

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Cormorant

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

Launch Date

08/07/1918

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

Yard no

13

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Cff

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

Document identity

9 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines & Boilers

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

18/08/1945

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

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

Document author

L J Coslett; J H Allan

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Cardiff

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/10/1945

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

Trenton N J

Engine builder as written

De Laval Steam Turbine Co

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 with a Cargo of Gas Bombs

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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