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Date recorded as the time of writing.

Date of document

08/12/1921

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

A unique number allocated to a specific vessel by an official registration authority of the country of registry (flag) that the vessel belongs to (post. 1855).

Official number

19386

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

Osaka Kaiji Kabushiki Kaisha

Recorded information related to a vessel’s movements.

Voyage information

20 miles south of Cape Guardafui

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

4583

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

Stranded

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

Place of ship loss

20 miles south of Cape Guardafui

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

6794

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

First entry?

N

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

Classification

+100A1 Shelter deck and freeboard 8.20; inred; +LMC 2.21

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

Ship type

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Is the steamer assisted by sail?

Sail assisted steamer

No

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

2822

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

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

Pertinent, useful or interesting recorded content.

Notes - interesting informations

Mentions the steamer Idomeneus went to assist. Also mentions that the Japanese men of war Katori and Kashima have been informed. Mentions that the British Admiralty have no vessels in the area to prevent pillage, and the Japanese have no consulate there. Mentions that the Salvage Association dispatched the vessel Protector from Suez

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