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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

20/06/1895

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

Year of ship completion

1895

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 name of the yard where the vessel was built.

Yard name

Hebburn

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Nwc

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

Document identity

Report on Machinery

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

First entry?

Y

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

20/06/1895

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

Master

F Wilson

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Newcastle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/07/1895

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

Inverted Triple Expansion 3 Cranks

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

Year of engine build

1895

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

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Rakaia

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

Launch Date

__/06/1895

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

Yard no

330

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

Place of build

Newcastle

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

Survey number

31969

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Plymouth

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

14/11/1894

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

New Zealand Shipping Co

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

Document author

J E Stoddart; G A Hake

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

J E Stoddart

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

Classification

+LMC 6,95

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

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

5628

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Newcastle

Engine builder as written

R & W Hawthorn 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

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