Document
Document
  • Related documents Related
  • Full details Details
  • Report document? Report?
?

Use the data export button to extract customised data sets from the Ship Plan and Survey Report Collection. Available in TSV and CSV formats.

Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

31/12/1923

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

Year of ship completion

1885

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

Robert Napier & Sons

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

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 12.21; SS 2 No. 3 7.10; SS No. 2 19; +LMC 12.19; +NB 12.03; BS 2.23

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

1236

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

611

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Glasgow

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

220

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

Registered Beam

32.1

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Electra

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

Launch Date

19/01/1885

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

Yard no

395

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

89675

Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.

Other numbers document know by

7124

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Eastern Telegraph Co Ltd

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

Ship type

Cable Ship

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

787

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

Engine type

Compound engines, 2 cylinder

Engine builder as written

Robert Napier & Sons

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

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

237.4

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

Registered Depth

16.6

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Owners were Eastern Telegraph Co - ship broken up by Attillio Ardito

Report an issue with this document

Have you noticed missing or incorrect data or images for this document?
Please let us know and we will rectify the issue as soon as possible.