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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

14/06/1920

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

6582

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

Michelson

The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.

Voyage from

Havana

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

Ship type

undefined

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

5532

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

3432

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Quincy, Massachusetts

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

488

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

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

molasses

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

Registered Beam

54.7

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

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

214053

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

Cuba Distilling Co

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

Classification

+100A1 6.19 carrying petroleum in bulk; in red +LMC 5.16

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Baltimore

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

Sr - Schooner

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

5141

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

Engine type

Triple Expansion, 3 cylinders

Engine builder as written

Fore River Shipbuilding Corp

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

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

389

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

Registered Depth

29.3

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