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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

10/11/1908

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

Year of ship completion

1908

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

Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson

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

Yard no

807

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

03/11/1908

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

T & J Harrison

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

Document author

Alexander Munro; A Campbell Holms

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

A Campbell Holms

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

Classification

+100A1; Shelter Dk with Fbd S 9,1; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 11,08; Elec Light

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Newcastle on Tyne; New Orleans

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

Burnt & Sunk

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

Place of ship loss

Lorenzo Marques

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

Country of loss or disposal

Mozambique

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Engineer

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

Launch Date

30/06/1908

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

A Claughton

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

Place of build

Wallsend on Tyne

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

Survey number

55700

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

05/11/1907

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Charente Steam Ship Co Ltd

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

Master

William Llewellyn

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

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

17/11/1908

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

New Orleans

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

5883

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

Fire broke out in No 2 lower hold at Lorenzo Marques caused by spontaneous combustion. Fire spread amidships accompanied by continous explosions. The vessel sank and is totally submerged.

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

Area of ship loss

Indian Ocean

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

18/06/1920

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