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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

12/02/1927

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

Year of ship completion

1917

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

Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd

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

Place of build

Walker on Tyne

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

Survey number

14869

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

Port of registry

Antwerp

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

16/11/1926

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cie Africaine de Navigation S A

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Antwerp

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

Classification

BS 2,27

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Antwerp; East Africa

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

5121

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

Year of engine build

1917

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)

1927

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Katanga

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

Launch Date

20/09/1917

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

Yard no

1038

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Ant

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

Document identity

9 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines & Boilers

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

12/02/1927

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

Document author

John Thomson

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Antwerp

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

08/03/1927

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

East Africa

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

undefined

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Newcastle

Engine builder as written

R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co 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

Draft

1927

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