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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

06/09/1955

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

Year of ship completion

1955

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

Mitsui Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Yard no

599

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Kob

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

Document identity

13 Report on Electrical Equipment

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

06/09/1955

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

Document author

S C Johnson; J Nonomura

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Tamano

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

10/02/1956

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1955

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Struck a Reef & Sank

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

27/07/1958

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Meikei Maru

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

Launch Date

23/06/1955

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

J Asano; S Tanaka

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

Place of build

Tamano, Japan

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

Survey number

3177

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Kobe, Japan

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

15/02/1955

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Meiji Kaiun KK Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Kobe

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

Classification

See Rpt 4C

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

Ship type

undefined

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

7614

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

Wrecked

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

Place of ship loss

Luzon Strait

Draft

1955

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