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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

06/08/1940

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

Year of ship completion

1917

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

D & W Henderson & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Glasgow

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

Survey number

17017

Other/additional record(s) specifically mentioned, referenced or associated to another record.

Associated documents

Swansea 22339

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

02/08/1940

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

E R Management & Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Buenos Aires

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

Classification

Deferred for BS

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Buenos Aires; United Kingdom

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

5548

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

Year of engine build

1917

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

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

15/09/1940

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Nailsea River

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

Launch Date

06/08/1917

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

Yard no

495

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

Port of survey abbreviations

B.As

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

Document identity

9 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c., of Engines & Boilers

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

Port of registry

Liverpool

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

17/07/1940

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Nailsea Steam Ship Co Ltd

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

Document author

A Daintith

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Buenos Aires

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

11/10/1940

The name of the port/place of destination given.

Destined voyage

United Kingdom

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

Location of construction for a vessel’s engines.

Location of engine build

Glasgow

Engine builder as written

David & William Henderson & 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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sunk by Enemy Action

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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