Ministry of Transport and Successors: War Risks Insurance Records

This series contains War Risks Insurance records. This comprises of files recording claims for the values of ship cargoes lost by sinking during the Second World War.

For records on War Risk Insurance policy for World War Two see MT 40

For War Risk Insurance Records for World War One see BT 365

For records on War Risk Insurance policy for World War Two see MT 9

• Board of Trade, Shipping Divisions, 1965-1970
• Department for Transport, 2002-2002
• Department of Trade, 1974-1983
• Department of Trade and Industry, 1983-2007
• Department of Trade and Industry, Shipping Divisions, 1970-1974
• Department of Transport, 1995-2002
• Ministry of Transport, 1919-1941
• Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Sea Transport Division, 1953-1959
• Ministry of Transport, Sea Transport Division, 1946-1953
• Ministry of Transport, Sea Transport Division, 1959-1965
• Ministry of War Transport, Shipping Division, 1941-1946

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War Risks Insurance was paid during WW2 under the provisions of the War Risks Insurance Act 1939 and was activated by an official statement in Parliament as part of the process subsequent on the declaration of war as laid down in the Government War Book. After the war the Shipping Policy Divisions of the Ministry, later Department of Transport took over responsibility for policy relating to War Risks Insurance under the provisions of the Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952.