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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Inquiries into Deaths at Sea: Papers and Reports
Catalogue reference: BT 341
What's it about?
BT 341
This series contains the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen's files on inquiries into deaths at sea under sections 386 and 690 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894. The files contain correspondence, papers and reports regarding deaths at sea...
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 341
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Inquiries into Deaths at Sea: Papers and Reports
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Date (When the record was created)
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1939-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen's files on inquiries into deaths at sea under sections 386 and 690 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894. The files contain correspondence, papers and reports regarding deaths at sea and in overseas ports in order to establish that there was sufficient information to record a death; rather than a missing presumed dead.
The dead include crew and passengers of all nationalities. The files typically include: sworn testimonies of survivors; particulars of the deceased; medical office and inspectors statements; answers to medical circumstances of death; examinations on oath; form B & D 3 containing detailed particulars of the cause of death; form Inq 6 Death on Board a British Foreign-Going Ship; form Inq 7 death, injury, ill treatment, punishment or casualty on a fishing boat; newspaper cuttings, and correspondence.
It should be noted that not all the cases concern fatalities 'on-board' ship; they can include the circumstances of deaths of passengers or seamen on route to the ship.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The files are arranged in calendar years and within years alphabetically by ships' names.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For the Marine Department and successors' shipping casualty investigation papers see BT 369
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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)
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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261 file(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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2000 to 2004 Registry of Shipping and Seamen
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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
- Shipping
- Population
- Fishing
- Merchant seaman
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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 the Registry of Shipping and Seamen in 1992.
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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There will be no further accruals.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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The files for the second world war period, and for 1964 have been preserved. The papers for other years are presumed to have been destroyed under undocumented/unknown criteria by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3377/
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Inquiries into Deaths at Sea: Papers and Reports
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