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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

24/10/1957

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

Year of ship completion

1941

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

British India Engineering Works Karachi

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

Place of build

Calcutta

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

Survey number

17345

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Calcutta 16932

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

26/09/1957

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

Document author

B Hill; E D Cook

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Chittagong

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

04/11/1957

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

T 3 Cylinders

Engine builder as written

Hooghly Docking & Engineering 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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

To be broken up

Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Karachi

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Firishta

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

Launch Date

__/__/1941

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Hooghly Dock & Engineering Co

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Cal

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

Document identity

9 Report of Periodical Surveys & Repairs of Machinery

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

Port of registry

Karachi

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

26/09/1957

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

East & West Steamship Co

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Calcutta

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

Classification

Deferred for TS & CP MBS

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

467

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Calcutta

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)

1957

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold to Sind Steel Corporation for Breaking up at Karachi

Draft

1957

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

B Hill has Signed on behalf of E D Cook

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