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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

03/03/1892

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

Year of ship completion

1890

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

Mackie & Thomson

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

Document identity

Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

SS Alcestis Co (Lim.) (Aitken & Walker)

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

Classification

Wrecked 3,92

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Mauritius

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

1850

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

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Alcestis

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

Launch Date

16/05/1890

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

Yard no

9

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

97661

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

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

Master

W B Duff

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

London; Aguilhas

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

Ship type

Cargo

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.

Net Register Tonnage

1204

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

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Struck a sunken wreck and foundered 8 miles off Aguilhas, about 1 March 1892 All on board were saved and landed in Guernsey. (Shipping news extract fixed to report.)

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