Catalogue description Ministry of Transport and Successors: War Risks Insurance Records

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Reference: MT 216
Title: Ministry of Transport and Successors: War Risks Insurance Records
Description:

This series contains War Risks Insurance records. This comprises of files recording claims for the values of ship cargoes lost by sinking during the Second World War.

Date: 1939-1965
Related material:

For War Risk Insurance Records for World War One see BT 365

For records on War Risk Insurance policy for World War Two see MT 9

For records on War Risk Insurance policy for World War Two see MT 40
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Transport, 1919-1941

Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, Sea Transport Division, 1953-1959

Ministry of Transport, Sea Transport Division, 1946-1953

Ministry of Transport, Sea Transport Division, 1959-1965

Ministry of War Transport, Shipping Division, 1941-1946
Access conditions: Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department for Transport
Administrative / biographical background:

War Risks Insurance was paid during WW2 under the provisions of the War Risks Insurance Act 1939 and was activated by an official statement in Parliament as part of the process subsequent on the declaration of war as laid down in the Government War Book. After the war the Shipping Policy Divisions of the Ministry, later Department of Transport took over responsibility for policy relating to War Risks Insurance under the provisions of the Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952.

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