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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

09/12/1958

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

Year of ship completion

1945

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

William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd

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

Place of build

Sunderland

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

Document identity

GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards

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

First entry?

N

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Dover

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Triple Expansion

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

Year of engine build

1945

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

Broken up

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

Place of ship loss

Ghent

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Shearwater

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

Launch Date

11/02/1945

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

Yard no

275

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

GKZR

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

Dover

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

William Forbes Allan

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

Ship type

Ferry

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

12127

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Sunderland

Engine builder as written

George Clarke (1938) 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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold for Breaking up, Demolition Commenced

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

__/01/1963

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