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Plan of Midship Section as fitted for Empire Chieftain, 19 October 1943
Date of document: 19/10/1943
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Date recorded as the time of writing.
05/11/1943
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1943
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.
Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.
Mdb
Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.
1 Steel Steamer or Motorship
The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
Middlesbrough
The date of first visit by a surveyor.
06/11/1943
The individual and/or organisation listed
Ministry of War Transport
Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record
H C Young; Cyril B Scorer
Name of surveyor.
Harold Clifford Young; Cyril Benson Scorer
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+100A1
Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.
Haverton Hill-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
A vessel’s means of propulsion.
Steam
Is the steamer assisted by sail?
No
A ship’s total internal capacity of a ship measured in register tons from the top of the floors to the tonnage deck.
8904
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
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.
475.55
Measurement from the underside of the upper deck on the centre line to the upper side of the bottom plating.
40.05
Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.
Character assigned: +100A1; +LMC 10,43; FD; CL; 2 WTB 490 lb; DB 105 lb
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Empire Chieftain - 1943
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
05/08/1944
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
354
The country in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
United Kingdom
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
17523
The country (flag) that a vessel is registered to, at the time of writing.
Italy
Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.
Y
The date of last visit by a surveyor.
10/10/1944
The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.
Royal Mail Lines Ltd
Location where the document is written.
Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.
Haverton Hill-on-Tees
Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.
12/05/1944
Broad categories and subdivisions of vessels related to their purpose or function.
Cargo
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).
9904
Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.
7165
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
Also referred to as extreme breadth. The distance from the extreme starboard side to the extreme port side.
64.4
Physical extent of a record.
2
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