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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

06/01/1837

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

Year of ship completion

1837

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

Archibald McFarlane Junior & Co

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

Place of build

Dumbarton

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

Thomas Hamilton & others

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

Document author

John Barr Cumming

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Dumbarton

The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.

Voyage from

Clyde

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Calcutta [Kolkata]

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

Rig

Bk - Barque

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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)

354

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Bengalee

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

Launch Date

__/__/1837

The name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Churchyard

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

Survey number

400

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

First entry?

U

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

Master

Thomas Hamilton Junior

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Dumbarton

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

Classification

A1 for 10 years

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Clyde

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

Ship type

Cargo

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

System of admeasurement referred to as ‘Builder’s Old Measurement’ (BM or BOM) in place between 1786 and 1836.

Gross Register Tonnage (OM)

305

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

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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