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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/05/1939

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

Year of ship completion

1929

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 Burntisland Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Burntisland

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

Survey number

52888

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

Port of registry

Swansea

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

06/04/1939

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Chellew Navigation Co Ltd

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

Document author

Hamish McG Paton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Cardiff

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/06/1939

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Far East Ports

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

Glasgow

Engine builder as written

D Rowan & 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

Struck amidships & Sank

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

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Pensilva

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

Launch Date

19/10/1929

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

Yard no

156

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Cff

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

Document identity

9 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines & 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

04/05/1939

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

J C Perman

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Cardiff

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

Classification

+100A1 9,38; S S Shl No 2-38; +LMC MS 12,37; BS 9-38; TS CL 9,38

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Cardiff; Far East Ports

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

Ship type

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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

4258

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

Year of engine build

1929

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 place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Ushant

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

19/11/1939

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