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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

23/05/1918

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

Irvine's Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd

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

Place of build

West Hartlepool

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

Survey number

15499

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

23/02/1915

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Furness Houlder Argentine Lines Ltd

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

Document author

A Boyd

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

A Boyd

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

Classification

+LMC 5,18; F D

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

Ship type

Twin 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

8651

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Hartlepool

Engine builder as written

Richardson Westgarth & 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 area of loss or disposal/last known recorded location.

Area of ship loss

South Atlantic

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Duquesa

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

Launch Date

10/12/1916

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

Yard no

555

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Hpl

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

Document identity

4 Report on 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

16/05/1918

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

Master

G Jarvis

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Hartlepool

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

West Hartlepool

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

14/06/1918

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

Engine type

Triple Expansion

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

Year of engine build

1918

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

Presumed Lost by Enemy Action

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

22/12/1940

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