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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

29/12/1944

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

Year of ship completion

1944

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

Shipbuilding Corp Ltd (Wear Branch)

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Survey number

34109

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Sunderland

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

29/12/1944

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

R Chapman & Sons

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Sunderland

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

Classification

See FE Machy Rpt

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

Ship type

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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

7085

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

Year of engine build

1943

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1944

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold to Sigma Shipping Co Ltd for Breaking up at Hong Kong

Draft

1944

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Empire Tudor

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Mandalay

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

Launch Date

29/10/1944

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

Yard no

5

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sld

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

Document identity

5a Report on Boilers

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

First entry?

N

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Ministry of War Transport

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

Document author

W H Fraser

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Sunderland

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

16/02/1945

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Barrow

Engine builder as written

Vickers Armstrong Ltd

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

To be broken up

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

Hong Kong

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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