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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

24/04/1922

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

Year of ship completion

1922

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

Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd

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

Place of build

Wallsend-on-Tyne

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Nwc

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

Document identity

5a Report on Boilers

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

04/03/1920

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cunard Steamship Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Wallsend-on-Tyne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Wallsend-on-Tyne

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Newcastle upon Tyne

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

19679

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Wallsend

Date in which construction of a vessel’s engines were completed.

Year of engine build

1922

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

Horsepower registered

2561

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Laconia

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

Launch Date

04/09/1921

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

Yard no

1125

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

74587

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?

N

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

04/09/1920

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

Document author

Maurice Ritson

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Maurice Ritson

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/11/1923

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

Ship type

Passenger Liner

Type of fuel used onboard a vessel.

Fuel

Steam - Oil

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

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.

Net Register Tonnage

11829

The country, at the time of writing, where a vessel’s engines were constructed.

Country of engine build

United Kingdom

Engine builder as written

Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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