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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

01/01/1940

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

Year of ship completion

1925

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

Ayrshire Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Irvine

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

First entry?

N

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

Classification

+100A1 with freeboard 10,39; S S No 3-10,38; +LMC 10,38; B S 9,39; Lloyd's RMC 7,39; TS 9,39 CL

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

Ship type

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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

1088

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 after Striking a mine

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

Area of ship loss

Southeast Coast

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Merel

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

Launch Date

09/07/1925

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

Yard no

497

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

Document identity

Report of Total Loss, Casualty, &c./ Wreck reports

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

General Steam Navigation Co Ltd

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/01/1940

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

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 (war loss)

Number of lives lost

15

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

08/12/1939

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