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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Technology and successors: Finance and Machine Tools Division and successors:...

    This series contains files generated by a succession of divisions responsible for oversight of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC) within the Ministry of Technology, the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Industry…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1949-1982
    Reference
    FV 3
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Civil Aviation and successors: Safety and General Group: Papers

    Files of the Safety and General Group of the Civil Aviation Department relating to all aspects of air safety pertaining to aeroplanes, helicopters and hovercraft with the exception of medical matters.The subject matter of the files includes: United K…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1927-1979
    Reference
    BT 248
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Shipping Control and Operation: Correspondence and Papers

    This series consists of papers of the Ministry of Shipping, the Ministry of War Transport and the post-war transport ministries. The wartime files are mostly concerned with the centralised direction of shipping during the emergency conditions of the …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1919-1998
    Reference
    MT 59
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registry of Shipping and Seamen: War of 1939-1945; Merchant Shipping Movement Cards

    The cards give the name of a ship and details of its movements, namely, the ports at which it docked, and passage between ports. They also record the location (by latitude and longitude) and date a ship was sunk. It should be noted that the cards do …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1946
    Reference
    BT 389
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Inquiry into the Loss of the MV Derbyshire

    The records of the secretariat to the formal Inquiry into the loss of the MV Derbyshire appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act 1970 section 55, including the exhibits submitted in evidence and the daily proceedings.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1964-2000
    Reference
    MT 213
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: Coastguard (CG and TCA Series) Files

    This series contains Coastguard (CG and TCA Series) files. The files in this series cover Press Office information, all Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) Estates around the coast, including Marine Rescue Coordination and Marine Offices, recruitmen…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1969-2013
    Reference
    MT 210
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Transport Ministries: International Shipping Policy (ISPB Series) Files

    The International Shipping Policy Branch dealt with European shipping policy, relations with international bodies (UN, OECD) over shipping matters, relations with the International Maritime Organisation, the North Atlantic Ice Patrol, legal liabiliti…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1980-2003
    Reference
    MT 212
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    General Shipping Policy: Registered Files

    This series contains files of the ministries of Transport, the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and the Ministry of War Transport. They relate to a wide range of national and international shipping policy matters including: emigration to the …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1922-1991
    Reference
    MT 73
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ambatielos Case

    This series consists of papers relating to a dispute between the British Government and N E Ambatielos, (Greek Shipowner) and later the Greek Government, over the purchase in 1919 of ships from the Ministry of Shipping. After a successful action by t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1917-1956
    Reference
    MT 53
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Anglo-French Steamship Company Limited

    Minutes, miscellaneous books and records of the Anglo-French Steamship Company.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1855-1865
    Reference
    RAIL 802
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966

    This series contains correspondence, etc., of the Foreign Office's Political Departments (including the War Department, 1914 to 1920, the Political Intelligence Department, 1918 to 1920, and the Political Intelligence Department, 1939-1946), and of c…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1903-1966
    Reference
    FO 371
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate...

    The series consists of records of the Directorate of Military Intelligence as established in 1939, together with some inherited from the former Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence.Additional sections were formed during the course of t…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1917-1990
    Reference
    WO 208
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Munitions: Files transferred to the War Office

    The documents relate principally to contracts, explosives, inventions and munitions inspection. Most of them were created in the Ministry but some had originated in the War Office, being transferred to the Ministry in 1915 or later with the functions…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1881-1935
    Reference
    MUN 7
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Shipping Claims Tribunal: Records of Claims

    Shipping Tribunal case files, 1941 to 1950, arising from disputes with the Ministry of War Transport, later Ministry of Transport, as to the payment of compensation in respect of the requisition or acquisition of vessels or the taking of space or acc…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1952
    Reference
    J 101
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    War Office: German Record cards of British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War and...

    This series comprises some pre-printed cards, containing personal details of some 200,000 individuals held by German Authorities during the Second World War, most relate to prisoners of war though there are several hundred relating to civilians. The …

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1939-1945
    Reference
    WO 416
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Department of Trade and Industry (1983-2007): Electrical Engineering, Chemical (Process...

    Files in this series include the following subjects: An example of the loan guarantee in practice – in this instance for the liner Queen Mary II;Records on the history of the loan guarantee process;Ship Mortgage Finance Company (SMFC) committee …

    Held by
    Date
    1983-2002
    Reference
    NK 77
  • Catalogue level
    Department

    Records of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency

    Records created or inherited by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    2001-2024
    Reference
    MCA
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Ministry of Technology and Department of Trade and Industry: External Research and...

    This series contains files in the EM series, which was used by the External Research and Materials Division of the Ministry of Technology (Mintech) and its successor divisions, both in Mintech and the Department of Trade and Industry. Some of the fil…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1964-1971
    Reference
    FV 31
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements

    This series contains a ten per cent sample of the agreements for fishing vessels under eighty tons kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1884-1929
    Reference
    BT 144
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Changes of Masters

    Registers of changes of masters of United Kingdom registered vessels notified to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.Each register contains lists of those masters who were in command of vessels registered in the United Kingdom, including the…

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    1893-1948
    Reference
    BT 336

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