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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

24/11/1924

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

Year of ship completion

1919

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

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Walker, Newcastle

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

Survey number

16714

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

Port of registry

Swansea

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

14/11/1924

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Cleeves Western Valleys Anthracite Collieries Ltd

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

Document author

Hamish McG Paton

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Swansea

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

02/12/1924

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

West Hartlepool

Engine builder as written

Central Marine Engine Works

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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Wrecked

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

Place of ship loss

Heysham Harbour

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

31/12/1924

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Western Valleys

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

Launch Date

15/07/1919

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

Yard no

953

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Sws

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

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

21/11/1924

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

V M Williams

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Swansea

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

Classification

+LMC 2,24

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

3106

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

Year of engine build

1919

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

A vessel’s calculated maximum speed.

Speed (knots)

1924

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Ashore, Broken, Sunk

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

Country of loss or disposal

United Kingdom

Draft

1924

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