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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

01/05/1925

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

Year of ship completion

1924

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

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

Yard no

971

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

Place of build

Walker

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

Survey number

79152

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

20/10/1919

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cunard Steamship Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle

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

Classification

+100A1; Shelter Dk Wfbd; Lloyd\'s A & CP; +LMC 5,25; FD; CL; Fitted for Oil Fuel 5,25 FP Above 150F

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

FA - Fore & Aft

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

14013

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

Sold to British Iron & Steel Corp for Breaking up at Newport

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Ascania

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

Launch Date

20/12/1923

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

H C William

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Naval Yard

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

Steel Steamer

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

04/05/1925

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

Document author

R Langlands

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Walker

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

18/08/1925

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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

No

Is electric lighting fitted to the vessel?

Electric light fitted?

No

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

To be broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Newport

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

; Also refers to vessel Ausonia

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