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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

30/10/1918

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

Year of ship completion

1919

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

American International Corp

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

Place of build

Hog Island, Philadelphia

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

Survey number

3408

Additional numbers that feature on a given record that may be used for identification.

Other numbers document know by

New York 15750

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Philadelphia

The date of last visit by a surveyor.

Date of latest survey

30/10/1918

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

Master

Lafvere

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

New York; Philadelphia

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Bayonne

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

16/09/1919

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

5562

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

Year of engine build

1919

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

Lafcomo

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

Launch Date

19/07/1919

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

Yard no

540

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Phl

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

Document identity

5 Report on Boilers

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

Associated documents

Philadelphia 3408

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

First entry?

N

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp

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

Document author

Alexander MacWatt; J Blellock

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Alexander MacWatt

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

Classification

See Phl Rpt 3408

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

Ship type

Screw Steamer

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Schenectady N Y

Engine builder as written

General Electric 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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