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Date recorded as the time of writing.
__/__/1939
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1925
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.
Vickers Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Barrow-in-Furness
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
10052
Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.
470
The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
Liverpool
The individual and/or organisation listed
Cunard White Star Line Ltd
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+100A1 Shelter Deck with freeboard 1.39; ss Liv no3 1.38; TS 1.39 CL fitted for oil fuel 8.25; FP above 150˚ F; in red; +LMC 1.37; +Lloyd's RMC 7.39; BS 1.39
Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.
Passenger
Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.
Steam - Oil
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
No
Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.
11971
Is machinery fitted at the aft of the vessel?
No
Generally a smaller additional auxiliary boiler (often used while the vessel is at port).
No
Name of the Proving House responsible for the public testing and certification of a vessel’s anchors and/or chain cables.
No
Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.
Carinthia torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat. Guns were manned when the U-boat attempted to surface, forcing her to submerge and successfully fighting her off until they could be joined by two warships and a rescue tug. Crew transferred to warships and a skeleton staff remain for 32 hours. Later forced to evacuate and cut the tow line before she sank
Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.
31/05/1940
Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.
Mentions the sister vessel to Carinthia, Franconia. Also mentions that Carinthia is the second armed merchant cruiser to be lost in action after the Rawalpindi (16697), sunk by the Deutschland in November 1939. Says that Carinthia was 16.5 knot steam turbine vessel to accomodate 1100 passengers, and was one of fifty vessels to be taken up for naval service and commissioned as a man of war. Took 32 hours to sink and crew had to supress U-boat for eight hours before warships turned up. Over 100 crew saved
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Carinthia
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
02/12/1926
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
586
The country in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
United Kingdom
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports
The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.
United Kingdom
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
N
An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.
J F B Barrett
Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.
07/06/1942
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Steam
Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.
Steel
A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).
20277
Confirmation as to whether the vessel was equipped with refrigeration machinery to aid in the transport of frozen or chilled cargo/goods.
No
Does the vessel possess an auxiliary power source?
No
Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?
No
The official record pronounced by the Committee
Sunk (war loss)
Two crew members and two ratings lost, rest of crew safely rescued
Physical extent of a record.
1
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