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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

16/04/1902

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

Year of ship completion

1902

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 Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd

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

Yard no

482

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Mdb

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

Document identity

Iron or 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

02/04/1902

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

Elder Dempster & Co

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

Document author

W H Cooper

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

W H Cooper

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

Classification

+100A1(Steel); Lloyd\'s A&CP; +LMC 3,02; Electric Light

The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.

Voyage from

Middlesbrough

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Liverpool

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

3806

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

Sold for breaking up purposes

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

Country of loss or disposal

Belgium

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Akabo

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

Launch Date

24/12/1901

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

J R Dixon

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

Place of build

Middlesbrough

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

Survey number

3328

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

13/03/1901

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

British & African Steam Naviagation Co Ltd

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

Joseph Morgan

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Middlesbrough

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Middlesbrough

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

18/04/1902

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Middlesbrough; Liverpool

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

Ship type

undefined

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

To be broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Ghent

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/__/1936

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Title of document has been altered; Also refers to sister vessel Nigeria

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