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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/02/1916

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

Year of ship completion

1916

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

George Brown & Co

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

Yard no

92

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Grk

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

Document identity

Steel Steamer

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

12/02/1916

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

Document author

Robert Howie; A P W McNab

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Greenock; Glasgow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

19/08/1924

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

St Vincent

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

Sp - Sloop

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

198

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

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

Water In Bulk

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Porto Grande

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

Launch Date

21/10/1915

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Geo Brown & Co

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

Place of build

Greenock

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

Survey number

16973

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

St Vincent, B W I

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

27/11/1914

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

St Vincent (Cape Verde) Coaling Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Greenock; Glasgow

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

Classification

+100A1; Carrying Water in Bulk

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Greenock; Glasgow; St Vincent

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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)

1916

Draft

1916

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