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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/04/1919

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

Ames Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co

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

Place of build

Seattle, Washington

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

Survey number

828

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Seattle

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

25/10/1918

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp

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

Document author

James Fowler

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Seattle

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

13/05/1919

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

Triple Expansion

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1919

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Western Knight

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

Launch Date

14/12/1918

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

Yard no

12

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sea

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

Document identity

4 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

14/04/1919

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

Master

W C W Renny

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Seattle

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

Classification

+LMC 4,19

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

5834

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Seattle

Engine builder as written

Ames Shipbuilding & Drydock 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

Draft

1919

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Western Ally

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