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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

28/05/1923

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

Year of ship completion

1895

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

Richardson, Duck & Co

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

Place of build

Thornaby on Tees

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

Dpskselsk. Norden

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

Classification

+100A1 Spar deck 12.22; SS 2nd No3 2.20; in red; +LMC 2.20; BS 5.22

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

St Nazaire

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

3297

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

2121

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

330

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

Registered Depth

18.4

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Mentions that Nordhvalen collided with the steamer Barracoo on it's voyage from New York. Barracoo is badly damaged and towed to Bethlehem, Sparrow's Point. Mentions that Nordhvalen is carrying 4500 tons of coal for one dollar a ton, with 1600 salves. Mentions individual by the name of Merrittt

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Nordhvalen

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

Launch Date

27/04/1895

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

Yard no

449

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

Survey number

7023

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

First entry?

N

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

P Brown Jv & Co

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Chesapeake Bay

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

3116

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

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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