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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/10/1924

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

Year of ship completion

1924

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

Commonwealth Dockyard

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

Place of build

Sydney NSW

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

Survey number

8455

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Sydney, N.S.W.

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

17/01/1923

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Australian Commonwealth Line of Steamer

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

Document author

E L Cartwright

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sydney, NSW

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

Sydney N S W

Engine builder as written

Commonwealth Dockyard

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

Went ashore

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

Country of loss or disposal

Algeria

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Ferndale

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

Launch Date

11/06/1924

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

Yard no

48

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Syd

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

Document identity

5 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

08/10/1924

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

Master

R Jalland

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sydney, N S W

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

Classification

See Other Report

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

9686

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

Year of engine build

1924

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

Wrecked

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

Place of ship loss

Dellys Harbour

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

16/06/1932

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