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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

26/09/1940

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

Year of ship completion

1937

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

John Readhead & Sons Ltd

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

Place of build

South Shields

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

Survey number

2656

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

Associated documents

Hull 50807

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

22/09/1940

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

Frank C Strick & Co Ltd

Location where the document is written.

Location of Document Creation

Cape Town

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

Classification

Deferred for Repairs

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

6803

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

Recorded date for the vessel’s loss or disposal.

Date of loss, disposal or incident

27/02/1941

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Baltistan

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

Launch Date

24/02/1937

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

Yard no

508

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

Port of survey abbreviations

C.Tn

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

Document identity

8 Report of Survey for Repairs, &c.

The listed port to which a given vessel belongs.

Port belonging to

London

The date of first visit by a surveyor.

Date of first survey

22/09/1940

The individual and/or organisation listed

Ship owner

Strick Line Ltd

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

Document author

George John Evans

Location where a vessel’s survey was undertaken.

Location of Survey

Cape Town

Date of the meeting of the Classing Committee.

Date of Classing committee

25/10/1940

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

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

Circumstances of loss or disposal

Sunk by Submarine

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

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