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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/02/1929

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

Year of ship completion

1928

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

Sir John Priestman & Co

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

Yard no

291

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sld

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

Document identity

1 Steel Steamer or Motorship

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

04/02/1929

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

Document author

A Urwin

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

12/02/1929

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

4222

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 the Admiral Graf Spee

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

07/10/1939

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Francis Massey

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Ashlea

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

Launch Date

12/12/1928

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

John Priestman

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Survey number

29949

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

Newcastle

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

04/06/1928

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cliffside Shipping Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sunderland

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

Classification

+100A1 With Freeboard; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 2,29

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

Sunk (war loss)

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

Area of ship loss

South Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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