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Ministry of Transport and successors, Establishment Division, Marine Branch: Registered...
Catalogue reference: MT 101
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MT 101
This series consists of files in the Est/M series of the Ministry of War Transport and, from 1946, the Ministry of Transport. The files deal with establishment matters such as staffing and accommodation for the lighthouse service between 1942 and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MT 101
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Transport and successors, Establishment Division, Marine Branch: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1942-1959
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of files in the Est/M series of the Ministry of War Transport and, from 1946, the Ministry of Transport. The files deal with establishment matters such as staffing and accommodation for the lighthouse service between 1942 and 1953.The series includes correspondence with Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Irish Lights Office.
No other files with the prefix EST/M are known to have survived.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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EST/M
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Establishment and General, Marine Branch, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, General Division, Marine Branch, 1950-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Information Division, Marine Branch, 1946-1950
- Ministry of War Transport, Information Division, Marine Branch, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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66 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Transport management
- Ireland
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Responsibility for merchant shipping was transferred from the Board of Trade to the Ministry of Shipping following the outbreak of war in 1939 and two years later was then absorbed within the new Ministry of War Transport.
After 1946 it remained with the peacetime Ministry of Transport until 1965 when it was restored to the Board of Trade.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11150/
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