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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/12/1922

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

Year of ship completion

1922

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

The Caledon Shipbuilding & Egineering Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Dundee

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Dun

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

09/12/1922

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

Document author

J E Sellex; J H MacKirdy

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Dundee

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

29/12/1922

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

River Tyne

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

Vessel Shelled; Lost by Enemy Action

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/09/1940

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

British Commander

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

Launch Date

11/07/1922

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

David Low

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

KNBS

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

Survey number

8400

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

03/02/1921

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

British Tanker Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Dundee

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 12,22 FD OG; Lloyds A & CP; Fitted for oil fuel 12,22 FP above 150°F

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Dundee; River Tyne

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

6896

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

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

Country of loss or disposal

Madagascar

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

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