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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

01/12/1932

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

Year of ship completion

1894

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

Murdoch & Murray

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Brown Street

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

104581

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

J Gillespie

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Dieppe; 7 to 8 miles south west of Needles

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

Ship type

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

A ship’s total internal capacity of a ship measured in register tons from the top of the floors to the tonnage deck.

Under Deck Tonnage

277

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Triple Expansion 3 Cylinders

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

Used to indicate the capability of early reciprocating steam engines, based on dimensions rather than performance. It is not a true indication of actual engine power.

Horsepower nominal

60

Prescribed by flag/registration authorities, and usually excludes a small part of the stern. It is measured from the foreside of the stern at the extreme top to the afterside of the stern post.

Registered Length

142.2

Measurement from the underside of the upper deck on the centre line to the upper side of the bottom plating.

Registered Depth

11.1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Bessie Barr

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

Launch Date

23/08/1894

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

Yard no

125

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

Survey number

8370

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

First entry?

N

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

Classification

+100A1 2.32

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Bristol

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

System of measurement that replaced ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’, taking a vessel’s internal capacity as the standard. Vessels built between 1836 and 1854 were legally required to display both tonnages.

Gross Register Tonnage (NM)

406

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

161

Engine builder as written

Muir & Houston

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

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

cider apples

Also referred to as extreme breadth. The distance from the extreme starboard side to the extreme port side.

Registered Beam

25

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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