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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

30/05/1916

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

Year of ship completion

1916

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

Fore River Shipbuilding Corp

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

Place of build

Quincy, Massachusetts

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

Survey number

853

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Boston 852

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

27/05/1916

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

Master

Van Gilder

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Boston

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

Classification

See Minute on FE Report

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Boston; Cuba

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

Ship type

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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

5788

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Missing

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

Area of ship loss

111 miles south of Cape Hatteras

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Cubadist

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

Launch Date

08/04/1916

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

Yard no

247

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Bos

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

Document identity

8 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c.

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

27/05/1916

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cuba Distilling Co

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

Document author

John S Heck

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Boston

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

23/06/1916

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Cuba

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1916

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

She went missing after leaving Havana for Baltimore. Last time reported 111 miles south of Cape Hatteras on the 29 February 1920

Draft

1916

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