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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

18/11/1916

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

Year of ship completion

1916

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

Kawasaki Dockyard Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Kobe

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

Port of survey abbreviations

Kob

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

Document identity

5a Report on 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

16/09/1916

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

Master

T Miyata

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Kobe

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Kobe

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

Ship type

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

4578

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

Year of engine build

1916

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)

1916

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Vessel stranded 20 miles south of Cape Guardafui. Salvage believed to be hopeless. Salvage steamer from Aden reports that the vessel has been burnt to the waters edge and not worth salving

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

01/08/1921

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Siam Maru

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

Launch Date

29/08/1916

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

Yard no

384

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

Country of build

Japan

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

Survey number

1922

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

Osaka

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

09/08/1915

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

The Osaka Shosen Kaisha

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

Document author

Arthur L Jones

Name of surveyor.

Surveyor

Arthur L Jones

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

12/01/1917

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

Kobe

Engine builder as written

The Kawasaki Dkyd 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

The official record pronounced by the Committee

Loss or disposal

Stranded

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

Place of ship loss

20 miles south of Cape Guardafui

Draft

1916

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