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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

01/04/1916

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

Year of ship completion

1916

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

Yard no

499

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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

Survey number

35880

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

Country of registration

United Kingdom

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

First entry?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

03/11/1917

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

Document author

Geo M Shaw

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

George McIntosh Shaw

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

Classification

+100A1, shelter DK with fbd 19.8, 3.16; Lloyd's A & C P; + LMC 3.16

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Glasgow

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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

13440

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

8945

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

Length of a ship along the summer load line from the vessel’s stem to the sternpost.

Length between perpendiculars

547.5

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

550

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

Registered Depth

33.85

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Under owners is the note "Requisitioned by the Admiralty"

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Avenger - 1916

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

Launch Date

06/06/1917

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

Place of build

Glasgow

Abbreviations of the names of ports with Lloyd’s Register survey offices.

Port of survey abbreviations

Gls

Official administrative title (often printed) of a record used by Lloyd’s Register or external organisations.

Document identity

Steel Steamer

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

11/01/1914

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Glasgow

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

04/06/1916

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

Ship type

Armed Merchant Cruiser

Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.

Fuel

Steam - Oil

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

9166

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

Depth of vessel at ship’s side from the highest point of the upper deck to the lowest point of the keel.

Extreme Depth

46.5

Moulded dimensions breadth- Also referred to as moulded beam. The distance from the inside of the starboard side plating to the inside of the port side plating.

Moulded Dimensions Breadth

68

Also referred to as extreme breadth. The distance from the extreme starboard side to the extreme port side.

Registered Beam

68.25

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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