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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

19/01/1920

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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

Cameron Genoa Mills Shipbuilders Ltd

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

Country of build

Canada

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

Soc Anon Lloyd Royal Belge

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

Voyage from

Tyne River

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Algiers

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

2342

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

1417

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

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sank in the Bay of Biscay owing to damage received during a hurricane between 31 December 1919 and 4 January 1920. Steering gear malfunctioned and a leak extinguished the fire in the boilers. All crew were picked up and safely brought to Dover

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

coal

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

Registered Beam

43.4

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

War Skeena

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

Launch Date

12/06/1918

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

Place of build

Victoria British Columbia

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

Survey number

6490

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

+12A1 12.19; in red; +LMC 10.18

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Gulf of Lyons; Gulf of Biscay

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

Ship type

undefined

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

1764

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Foundered

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

06/01/1920

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

249.8

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

Registered Depth

23

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Mentions the following vessels "Niels Nielsen"; "Luise Nielsen"; British steamer "Nore" from India; Norwegian steamer "Rio de Janeiro" for Hamburg. British steamer Nore states that her wireless apparatus was damaged in the hurricane

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