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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

13/07/1926

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

Launch Date

18/03/1926

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

Yard no

616

Previously referred to as signal letters (c.19th C), radio call signs enable a ship to communicate and are assigned by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

Signal letter/Call sign

KVFT

The port in which a vessel is registered or permanently based.

Port of registry

Liverpool

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The British & African Steam Navigation Co Ltd

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

Master

Joseph Banks Wright

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

Ship type

Passenger; Cargo

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Motor (internal combustion)

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Engine type

Reciprocating Double Acting Internal Combustion

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

Year of engine build

1926

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

Sunk by submarine

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

Place of ship loss

West coast of Ireland

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

26/07/1940

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

Year of ship completion

1926

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

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

Place of build

Belfast

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

Document identity

GR130 Vessels of 100 tons & upwards

Records that constitute Lloyd’s Register’s first official encounters with a specific vessel, e.g. a survey report.

First entry?

N

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

David Jones

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Liverpool

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

Rig

Sr - 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

9337

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Belfast

Engine builder as written

Harland & Wolff 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

Number of lives lost

19

The country or national waters where a vessel is lost/disposed of, or last recorded.

Country of loss or disposal

Ireland

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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