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Board of Trade and successors: Marine Divisions: Gallantry at Sea Awards
Catalogue reference: BT 261
What's it about?
BT 261
This series consists of registers and papers discovered in a branch of the Marine Division.The records deal in the main with awards for acts of gallantry at sea, recommendations for and consideration of awards, and accounts of actions leading to...
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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BT 261
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: Marine Divisions: Gallantry at Sea Awards
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Date (When the record was created)
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1856-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registers and papers discovered in a branch of the Marine Division.
The records deal in the main with awards for acts of gallantry at sea, recommendations for and consideration of awards, and accounts of actions leading to the presentation of awards. A few papers deal with the institution of the Mercantile Marine War Medal.
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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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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Trade, Marine Department, 1850-1921
- Board of Trade, Marine Division, 1965-1970
- Board of Trade, Mercantile Marine Department, 1921-1939
- Ministry of Shipping, Marine Division, 1939-1941
- Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Marine Department, 1953-1959
- Ministry of Transport, Marine Department, 1946-1953
- Ministry of Transport, Marine Group, 1959-1965
- Ministry of War Transport, Marine Departments, 1941-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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17 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure 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
- Trade and commerce
- Medals
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3298/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade and successors: Marine Divisions: Gallantry at Sea Awards
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