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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/02/1898

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

Year of ship completion

1898

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

John Shearer & Son

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

Yard no

20

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?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

18/02/1898

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

Master

P Walsh

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

01/03/1898

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Coasting

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

835

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

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

Place of ship loss

Dunkirk

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

21/05/1940

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Tourmaline

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

Launch Date

13/11/1897

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

John Shearer & Son

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

15856

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Glasgow

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

24/11/1896

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

W Robertson

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

Document author

Henry Hand

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Henry Hand

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

Classification

+100A1 Steel; A & CP; +LMC 2,98 1 Dk (Stl); Elec light Well dk

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Glasgow; Coasting

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

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

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Bombed & Sank; raised

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

France

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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