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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

23/10/1918

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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

J F Duthie & Co

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

Place of build

Seattle, Washington

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

Survey number

722

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Seattle

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

24/06/1918

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

United States Shipping Board & Emergency Fleet Corp

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

Document author

Alexander Ewing

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Alexander Ewing

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

Classification

+LMC 9,18

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

Ship type

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

5676

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Schenectady New York

Engine builder as written

General Electric Co

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

Draft

1918

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Western Cross

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

Launch Date

04/07/1918

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

Yard no

18

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sea

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

Document identity

4 Report on Machinery

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

03/09/1918

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

Master

E Sewall

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Seattle

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Seattle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

06/11/1918

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

Geared Turbine

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

Year of engine build

1918

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)

1918

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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