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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

20/06/1921

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

Year of ship completion

1921

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

Harland & Wolff Ltd

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

Yard no

579

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Bel

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

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

06/05/1920

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Bibby Steamship Co Ltd

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

Master

F W L Midgley

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Belfast

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

Classification

+100A1; Lloyds A & CP; +LMC 6,21; CL; Oil engines

The name of the port/place from which a vessel’s voyage originated.

Voyage from

Belfast

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

Vancouver

Physical arrangement of a ship’s masts, sails and rigging.

Rig

FAS - Fore & Aft Schooner

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

7456

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

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 T W Ward Ltd for breaking up at Barrow

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Somersetshire

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

Launch Date

24/02/1921

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Chas Payne

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

Place of build

Belfast

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

Survey number

8545

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

Associated documents

Belfast 8377

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

09/06/1921

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

Bibby Bros & Co Ltd

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

Document author

S O Kendall

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Belfast

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

28/06/1921

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Belfast; London; Panama; Vancouver

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

Ship type

Twin Screw Motor Vessel

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

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

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

Barrow

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Also refers to vessel Dorsetshire

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