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Report on Boilers for City of Banares, 16th October 1936

City of Benares

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

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W369-0106-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

Glasgow

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

16/10/1936

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

Year of ship completion

1936

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

Barclay Curle & Co Ltd

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

57571

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

11/10/1935

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ellerman Lines Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

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

Classification

See Accompanying Machinery Report

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

Birkenhead

Engine builder as written

Cammell Laird & Co Ltd

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 by Submarine

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

Area of ship loss

Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

City of Benares

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

Launch Date

05/08/1936

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

Yard no

656

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

5a Report on Boilers

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

16/10/1936

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

Document author

H Sutherst; George O Common

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

29/12/1936

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

11081

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

Year of engine build

1936

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

Number of lives lost

90

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

17/09/1940

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