BT 3471940-1945Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Daily Casualty Registers and Index to Ships, War of 1939-1945
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.