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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

25/01/1915

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

Year of ship completion

1915

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

W Doxford & Sons Ltd

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

Yard no

471

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sld

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

14/01/1915

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

The Instow Steam Ship Co Ltd

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

Document author

J Allan

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

29/01/1915

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Galveston

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Indian City

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

Launch Date

04/11/1914

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

A E Doxford

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Survey number

26343

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Bideford

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

16/06/1914

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Instow Steam Ship Co Ltd

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

Master

J Williams

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sunderland

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 1,15

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Sunderland; Galveston

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

4645

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

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