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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

30/01/1913

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

Year of ship completion

1896

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

R & W Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Newcastle

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

First entry?

N

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

Document author

C Fowling

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Charles Fowling

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

System of measurement that replaced ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’, taking a vessel’s internal capacity as the standard. Vessels built between 1836 and 1854 were legally required to display both tonnages.

Gross Register Tonnage (NM)

6072

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Newcastle

Engine builder as written

Hawthorne Leslie & 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

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

Area of ship loss

Off Madeira

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Visited by Mr Dodd, representative of owners of Cornwall and Mr Rennie Smith of Liverpool, as well as Mr Henderson, the representative for the vessel's upcoming sale. Examined the stern frame together. Galvanisation occurred when the vessel was used as a transport service in the South African war and was laid up at teh Cape. Shoe covering this is in the same state of repair as when installed 9 years ago. Temporary repair suggested by stated the future owners were not happy with dealing with it in the future. Recommended that a new steel shoe be fitted as a permanent repair. Intended purchaser stated they would complain.

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Cornwall

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

Launch Date

__/11/1896

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

Yard no

339

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

Document identity

Undefined

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Societa Italiana di Navigazione (Coc & Cleria)

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

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

Ship type

Cargo

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Triple expansion.

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

Year of engine build

1896

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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

The Italian steamer Atlantide SS was on passage from Genoa - New Orleans, when she was sunk by the German submarine U-156 (Konrad Gansser). Information from www.wrecksite.eu

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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