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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/12/1948

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

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

AQAC

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

Port of registry

Karachi

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cowasjee Minocher Cowasjee

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Karachi

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

Reciprocating triple expansion direct acting vertical inverted

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

Year of engine build

1940

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)

1948

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

1948

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

A unique number allocated to a specific vessel by an official registration authority of the country of registry (flag) that the vessel belongs to (post. 1855).

Official number

191023

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

Document identity

GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

An officially licensed mariner (post 1850) holding ultimate command and responsibility for a vessel.

Master

Sulleman Dawood

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

Ship type

Cargo

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

Hebburn on Tyne

Engine builder as written

White\'s Marine Engineering 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

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

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