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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

10/10/1918

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

Year of ship completion

1918

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

The Northumberland Shipbuilding Co Ltd

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

Yard no

250

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

Steel Steamer

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

07/11/1917

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Shipping Controller

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

Master

G Arthur

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Newcastle on Tyne

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Howdon

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

25/10/1918

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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)

1918

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation for Breaking up at Cardiff

Recorded information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

oil fuel

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

War Castle

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

Launch Date

26/07/1918

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

R Garlier

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

Place of build

Howdon Newcastle on Tyne

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

Survey number

71350

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

Associated documents

Newcastle 71144

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

10/10/1918

The individual and/or organisation listed that is responsible for the everyday management of a ship. This may be the same as the owner.

Ship manager

R Gordon & Co

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

Document author

James Gregory; E J Milton

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

E J Milton

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

Classification

+100A1; Shelter Dk With Fbd; Cargo Battens Not Fitted in Shelter Tween Dk; Carrying Oil Fuel FP Above 150 F in DB; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 10,18; FD

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

5685

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

Cardiff

Draft

1918

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to Vessel Clan MacVey

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