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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

05/03/1921

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

Year of ship completion

1921

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

Northwest Bridge & Iron Co

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

Yard no

42

A unique number allocated to a specific vessel by an official registration authority of the country of registry (flag) that the vessel belongs to (post. 1855).

Official number

221071

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Pld

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

26/02/1921

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

Master

A A Sawyer

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Portland Oregon

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

Classification

+100A1; Shelt DK W Fbd Carr Pet in Bulk; +LMC 2,21; Fitted for Oil Fuel 2,21; Fp Above 150 F; A & Cp; Egp Tr C+Mchy Aft; Lloyds Framg Elec Lt FD

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Portland Oregon; San Francisco

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

Missing

Number of lives lost

30

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

Country of loss or disposal

Colombia

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Petroleum in bulk

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Swiftstar

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

Launch Date

05/02/1921

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

D Mervill

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

Place of build

Portland, Oregon

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

MZLK

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

Survey number

624

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

New York

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

24/07/1920

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Swiftsure Oil Transport Co

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

Document author

Walker Lang

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Portland Oregon

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

15/03/1921

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

San Francisco

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

8207

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

Washed ashore, posted as missing

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

Place of ship loss

St Andrew Island

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

30/06/1923

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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