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Date recorded as the time of writing.
27/08/1940
The year in which a vessel’s construction is completed.
1922
Unique identifier for a given ship, it is assigned by a builder.
557
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 listed port to which a given vessel belongs.
Liverpool
The individual and/or organisation listed
Cunard White Star Line Ltd
Classification symbol assigned to a vessel by Lloyd’s Register’s Classing Committee denoting the quality of construction and maintenance.
+100A1 shelter dk with freeboard 3,39
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).
16243
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 by aircraft
Reported 2,477 survivors out of more than 5,300 believed to be on board
Vessel’s area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
Bay of Biscay
Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.
06/05/1941
Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.
Ship lost 17 June 1940. Newspaper extracts relating to the loss incident are affixed to report.
Name of ship as recorded on the record
Tyrrhenia
The process of transferring a vessel to water, but not necessarily her completion.
05/07/1922
The port or place in which the vessel’s construction took place, at the time of writing.
Dalmuir
Unique internal numbers used for identifying, referring and retrieving a specific survey report.
10108
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
Name of the individual/entity/organisation responsible for authoring the record
William Beardmore & Co Ltd
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.
9509
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 aircraft 17 June 1940, while lying at anchor at St Nazaire. She was hit by a salvo of bombs and immediately took a heavy list, capsized and sank within 30 minutes of being hit, 2,477 survivors believed to have been picked up and more than 5,300 people believed to have been onboard at the time.
Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.
St Nazaire
The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.
France
Physical extent of a record.
1
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