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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

29/09/1919

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

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 Pa

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

Survey number

3428

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

Other numbers document know by

New York 15862

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Philadelphia

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

02/12/1918

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

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 3428

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

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

r 1919

Contextual information related to the reasons of the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation & Allocated to Thomas Ward Ltd for Breaking up at Milford Haven, Demolition will be Commenced

Draft

1919

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Labette

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

Launch Date

30/07/1919

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

Yard no

541

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 3428

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

02/12/1918

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

Master

J McCloud

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 N J

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

30/09/1919

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Schenectady

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

To be broken up

Vessel’s place of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Place of ship loss

Milford Haven

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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