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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

__/__/0000

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

Year of ship completion

1951

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

Harland & Wolff Ltd

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

Place of build

Belfast

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

Survey number

15283

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Union Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Belfast

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

Classification

See FE Mchy Rpt

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

Ship type

Twin Screw Steamer

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

17041

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

Year of engine build

1951

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

Kaohsiung

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Rhodesia Castle

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

Launch Date

05/04/1951

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

Yard no

1431

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Bel

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

Document identity

5c Report on Water Tube Boilers

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

First entry?

N

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

Document author

A Daintith; J B Smail

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Belfast

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

04/12/1951

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Belfast

Engine builder as written

Harland & Wolff 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 to Chin Ho Fa Steel & Iron Co Ltd for Breaking up at Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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

Country of loss or disposal

Taiwan

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