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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

07/07/1927

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

Year of ship completion

1920

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

Chantier et Ateliers de St Nazaire

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

Yard no

T5

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Nts

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

Document identity

13 Report on Electric Fittings

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

06/07/1927

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

Document author

George A Laing

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

St Nazaire

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

Ship type

undefined

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

8513

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

Sunk by Submarine

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/03/1941

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Benjamin Franklin

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

Launch Date

16/12/1920

Name of the shipbuilder as it appears on the record.

Shipbuilder's signature

Chantier & Ateliers de St Nazaire

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

Place of build

St Nazaire

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

Survey number

1529

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Oslo

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

05/05/1926

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Fred Olsen & Co

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Nantes

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

Classification

Elec Light

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

Sunk

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

Area of ship loss

Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

2

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