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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

03/06/1857

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

Year of ship completion

1845

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

A McMillan & Son

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Lon

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

Document identity

Report of Survey for Repairs

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Greenock

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

27/04/1857

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

MacFarlan

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

London

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

London

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

05/06/1857

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Sail

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)

480

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

William Watson

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

Launch Date

__/__/1845

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

Place of build

Dumbarton

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

Survey number

21101

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

Associated documents

London 20848

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

03/06/1857

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

Document author

Henry J Boolds; Thomas William Wawn; James Martin

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Henry J Boolds; James Martin

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

Classification

Cont 3A1; Record YM

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

Rig

Bk - Barque

Predominant material(s) utilised in a vessel’s construction.

Material of construction

Wood

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

Gross Register Tonnage (OM)

432

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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