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Report on Oil Engine Machinery for Matafele, 10th November 1938

Matafele

A current reference number/code used to uniquely identify each record.

Unique reference code

LRF-PUN-W252-0055-R

Letters/Correspondence/Certificate/Report/Form/Other/Wreck Report/Photograph/Plan.

Document type

Report

Name of the survey office responsible for inspecting a vessel, and linked to the port of survey abbreviation used.

Survey office

Hong Kong

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

Place of build

Hong Kong

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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

10/11/1938

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

Year of ship completion

1938

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 Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Hong Kong

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

Survey number

8211

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Hong Kong

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

03/02/1938

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Burns Philp & Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Hong Kong

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

Classification

+LMC 11,38; OG Oil Engine

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

undefined

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Type and configuration of the engine(s) supplied for a vessel.

Engine type

Enclosed Trunk Solid Injection

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

Year of engine build

1938

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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Left, has not been heard of since

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

18/06/1944

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Matafele

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

Launch Date

29/08/1938

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

Yard no

800

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

Port of survey abbreviations

H.Kg

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

Document identity

4b Report on Oil Engine 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

04/11/1938

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

Document author

T S Morrison

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Hong Kong

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

20/12/1938

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

335

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Hong Kong

Engine builder as written

The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co Ltd

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

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

Place of ship loss

Townsville; Queensland

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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