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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/07/1918

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

Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp Ltd

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

Yard no

149

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

LMB

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

Survey number

2769

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Philadelphia

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

13/09/1917

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Atlantic Refining Co

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

Document author

P McIntosh; Arnold Bennett; A P W McNab

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Alameda, California

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

30/07/1918

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

Broken up

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/__/0000

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

W M Burton

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

Launch Date

20/02/1918

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

A Forster

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

Place of build

Alameda, California

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

Port of survey abbreviations

S.Fo

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

25/06/1918

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

Master

H H Bennett

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

San Francisco

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

Classification

+100A1; Carrying Petroleum in Bulk; +LMC 6,18; Fitted for Oil fuel 6,18 FP above 150 F; longitudinal framing; Elec lt; a & cp; machy aft

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

7171

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

Laid up; work of demolition begun

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel W M Irish

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