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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Daily Casualty Registers and Index to Ships, War...
Catalogue reference: BT 347
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BT 347
This series contains daily casualty registers from the Second World War, kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. The registers record the daily ship casualties mainly due to enemy action but also including other routine causes of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 347
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Daily Casualty Registers and Index to Ships, War of 1939-1945
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940-1945
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains daily casualty registers from the Second World War, kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
The registers record the daily ship casualties mainly due to enemy action but also including other routine causes of losses at sea which affected allied merchant fleets during the War of 1939 to 1945. Each incident is recorded naming the class of vessel, the ship's name, nationality of the ship, date and time, cause and approximate position, voyage details and cargo and latest information available. Additional information is occasionally given on attached forms.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological. The sheet numbers covered in each binder are given on each front cover together with the dates covered by each binder. Each page within the binders is numbered and dated.
BT 347/8 is an alphabetical index to the ships named in pieces 1-7.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- 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)
- 8 files and microform
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 1999 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- Series ran 1940-1945
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All records have been selected
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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 date range of these records suggests that the practice of recording the casualties started when Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen was the responsibility of the Shipping Intelligence Branch of the Ministry of Shipping and ended when the Registrar was under the Ministry of War Transport. The only reference now to the Shipping Intelligence Branch in the records is that it is written on the covers of each of the binders. This Branch was probably created by the Ministry of Shipping in the early years of the conflict.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3383/
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Daily Casualty Registers and Index to Ships, War of 1939-1945
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