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Board of Trade and successors: Marine Department and successors: Shipping Casualty...
Catalogue reference: BT 369
What's it about?
BT 369
This series contains shipping casualty investigation papers of the Marine Department and successors.Most of the records are verbatim transcripts of the proceedings of formal investigations into shipping casualties held before a Wreck...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 369
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Marine Department and successors: Shipping Casualty Investigation Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1910-1988
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains shipping casualty investigation papers of the Marine Department and successors.
Most of the records are verbatim transcripts of the proceedings of formal investigations into shipping casualties held before a Wreck Commissioner. Some records consist of reports of preliminary inquiries. Among the records selected are the minutes of the proceedings relating to the sinking of the 'Lusitania' by two German submarine torpedoes on 7 May 1915; an act which contributed to the demise of Woodrow Wilson's neutrality policy, and the eventual entry of the United States into the War of 1914 to 1918 on 6 April 1917.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Casualty investigation papers have not been arranged in any relative order. However, the files concerning each specific incident have been arranged chronologically within each collection of papers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen's inquiries into deaths at sea, see BT 341
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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400 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1999 Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
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Transferred to Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in 1997.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Records have been selected for preservation if the incidents to which they relate were controversial, concerned 'causes celebres' or were catalysts to changes in shipping safety policy and practices.
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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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The Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 authorised the Board of Trade to set up preliminary inquiries and formal investigations in respect of shipping casualties.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14993/
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