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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

16/05/1913

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

Year of ship completion

1913

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

Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd

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

Yard no

825

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Nwc

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

08/05/1913

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

Document author

A R Sneddon

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle on Tyne

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/05/1913

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Cape Town

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

6127

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

Laid Up & Sold for Breaking Up

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Karroo

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

Launch Date

20/03/1913

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

J L Twaddell

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

Place of build

Hebburn-on-Tyne

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

Survey number

64211

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Shields

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

11/03/1912

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

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

Classification

+100A1; Lloyds A & Cp; +LMC 5,13

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Newcastle; Cape Town

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Broken up

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/__/0000

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