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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/09/1918

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

Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co

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

Place of build

San Pedro, California

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

Survey number

2823

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Los Angeles, Cal.

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

06/06/1918

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

J S Blackett

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Los Angeles

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

24/09/1918

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

Double Reduction Geared Turbines

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

West Galeta

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

6

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

Port of survey abbreviations

S.Fo

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

Document identity

4a 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

W H Curtis

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

San Francisco

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

Classification

+LMC 9,18; Fitted for Oil Fuel 9,18 FP above 150 F

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

3898

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Pittsburg Pa

Engine builder as written

Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing 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

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel West Galoc

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