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Board of Trade and successors: War Risks Insurance Records
Catalogue reference: BT 365
What's it about?
BT 365
This series contains War Risks Insurance records, comprising ledgers recording claims for values of ship cargoes lost by sinking during the First World War. Details of each claim are desrcibed at item level; each item reference refers to the...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 365
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade and successors: War Risks Insurance Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914-1957
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains War Risks Insurance records, comprising ledgers recording claims for values of ship cargoes lost by sinking during the First World War.
Details of each claim are desrcibed at item level; each item reference refers to the page number in the volume.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Chronological in order of settlement of claims; each volume has an alphabetical index of ship and claimant names.
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 35 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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in 2012 Department for Transport
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
- War Risks Insurance records, comprising ledgers recording claims for values ofship cargoes lost by sinking during the First World War.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3401/
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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: War Risks Insurance Records
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