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Date recorded as the time of writing.
03/09/1940
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1927
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.
Cammell, Laird & Co Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Birkenhead
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
10120
Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.
F
The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
London
The individual and/or organisation listed
Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd
The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.
United Kingdom
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.
9096
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.
Sunk by U-Boat west of the Scottish coast and north west of the Irish coast
Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
West coast of Scotland, and north west coast of Ireland
Physical extent of a record.
1
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Arandora Star - 1929
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
01/02/1928
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
921
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
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+100A1 with freeboard 3.40; s2 no3 12.38. Fitted for oil fuel 5.27 above 150˚ F; in red; +LMC 12.38; BS 3.40; TS 11.37 CL
The name of the port/place of destination given.
Canada
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).
15501
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
Ship was carrying 1500 German and Italian prisoners of war. It is estimated that roughly 143 Germans and 470 Italians were lost at sea. The survivors were able to get aboard thirteen lifeboats and were rescued safely by a destroyer with the help of a Sund
Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.
07/02/1940
Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.
States she was carrying 1500 German and Italian prisoners of war. Commander of the U-Boat is mentioned as a Kapitanleutenant Prien, listed as the captain who had succesfully sunk the Royal Oak in Scapa Flow, October 1939, with a quote from Churchill, and includes a quote from Prien of the sinking of Arandora Star in Hungarian. Says she was spotted sinking by a Sunderland flying boat which dropped first aid outfits, food, cigarettes and lifejackets before going out in search of a destroyer to effect a rescue. Sunderland assisted with flares and verey lights to guide the destroyer to the lifeboats
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