Catalogue description Board of Trade and successors: War Risks Insurance Records

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Reference: BT 365
Title: Board of Trade and successors: War Risks Insurance Records
Description:

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.

Date: 1914-1957
Arrangement:

Chronological in order of settlement of claims; each volume has an alphabetical index of ship and claimant names.

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 35 volume(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

in 2012 Department for Transport

Accruals: Series is accruing.
Administrative / biographical background: War Risks Insurance records, comprising ledgers recording claims for values ofship cargoes lost by sinking during the First World War.

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