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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

21/08/1943

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

Year of ship completion

1943

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

Vickers Armstrongs Ltd

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

Place of build

Barrow

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

Survey number

2954

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Barrow

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

02/06/1942

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Ministry of War Transport

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Barrow

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

Classification

+LMC 8,43; FD CL; 2WTB 460 lbs; (Spl 440 lbs); DB 105 lbs

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

7803

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

1943

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Empire Viceroy

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

Launch Date

08/04/1943

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

Yard no

858

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Brw

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

Document identity

4a Report on Steam Turbine 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

16/08/1943

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

Document author

Digby L H Collinson

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Barrow

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

14/09/1943

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)

1943

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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