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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

24/06/1929

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

Year of ship completion

1893

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

R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Hebburn

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

102653

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.

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

22/06/1929

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

Blue Star Line Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Buenos Aires

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

Classification

Deferred for repairs

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)

5534

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

3403

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

543

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

Registered Beam

54

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Buteshire

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

Launch Date

10/10/1893

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

Yard no

316

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

Place of build

Newcastle

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

Survey number

Buenos Aires 10908

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

Associated documents

Newcastle 83982

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

14/06/1929

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Union Cold Storage Co Ltd

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

Document author

Patrick I Adie

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Buenos Aires

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

5207

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

Engine type

Triple Expansion 3 Cylinder

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

420

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

Registered Depth

28.7

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