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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

07/05/1947

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

Year of ship completion

1928

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

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Walker Naval Yard

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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 listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Oslo

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Belships Co Ltd Skibs A/S

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

Document author

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd

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

Ship type

Cargo

Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.

Fuel

Motor - Oil

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Yes

Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?

Electric light fitted?

No

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Capsized

Number of lives lost

18 survivors; 9 not found

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

04/11/1947

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Belpamela

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

Launch Date

11/10/1927

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

Yard no

1028

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

13174

The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.

Country of registration

Norway

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

Christen Smith

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

Classification

+100A1 2.47 Reclassed 9.45; in red +LMC 9.45 DBS 9.45

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Steel

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

3131

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

While carrying trains, including 17 engines of 110-150 tons each, she sank in the North Atlantic caused by the trains rolling and bursting out the ship's sides

Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Area of ship loss

North Atlantic

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

trains; engines

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Newspaper extracts relating to loss affixed to report

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