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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

17/03/1892

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

Year of ship completion

1888

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

William Simons & Co Ltd

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

Place of build

Renfrew

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

The Steamship Abington (Raeburn and Verel)

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

Ship type

Cargo

Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

A ship’s total internal capacity of a ship measured in register tons from the top of the floors to the tonnage deck.

Under Deck Tonnage

1920

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 collision

Physical extent of a record.

Number of parts

1

Name of ship as recorded on the record

Ship name

Abington

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

Launch Date

13/07/1888

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

Yard no

258

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

Country of build

United Kingdom

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

First entry?

N

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

Antwerp; Brazil

A vessel’s means of propulsion.

Propulsion

Steam

A ship’s total internal volume in ‘register tons’ (replaced by gross tonnage post 1982).

Gross Register Tonnage

2053

Tonnage derived by deducting from the gross register tonnage the capacity that in unavailable for cargo, e.g. machinery space, fuel, crew accommodation etc.

Net Register Tonnage

1336

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 information relating the specific cargo being conveyed.

Cargo

railway material

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Report on Abington which collided with German steamer Activa while undocking at Antwerp. Activa was damaged as well but must have managed to dock.

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