‘File 12/16 Merchant Shipping Acts and instructions to Consuls’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘File 12/16 Merchant Shipping Acts and instructions to Consuls’
- Date:
- 1931/1950
- Description:
- Abstract: The file comprises copies of instructions to British Consuls, in the form of letters, printed circulars, notices and forms, issued by the Ministry of Transport (or the Ministry of War Transport during the Second World War) and relating to merchant shipping, including regulations and government provisions for merchant seamen.Subjects covered include:instructions dated December 1932, covering use of communications, including wireless telegraphy (ff 7-10) and radar training (f 67);Circular No. 1681, entitled Instructions to Consuls (Merchant shipping and seamen), dated August 1931 (ff 11-19);various sets of instructions and forms relating to the wellbeing of merchant seamen, covering marine casualties, seamen in distress, payment of necessities for sick and injured seamen, compensation for the loss of effects; repatriation of shipwrecked or discharged seamen;papers covering national insurance, pensions and injuries insurance for merchant seamen (ff 40-45, ff 87-89);instructions covering ‘dominion and colonial seamen’ (f 32, ff 118-120), including the issue of discharge books for ‘Chinese seamen’ at Hongkong [Hong Kong] (f 72), and settlement of wages for repatriated seamen from India (f 94);instructions relating to wages for merchant seamen, covering income tax payments, and income tax deduction tables for the years 1946 to 1948 (ff 78-79, ff 49-52, ff 62-65), advances of wages for seamen either shipwrecked or discharged abroad (f 82);electoral registration papers, issued under the Representation of the People Act (1948), including application forms for treatment as an absent voter for an indefinite period, and application for appointment by proxy (ff 26-28);instructions related to wartime and post-war events, including: ships registered at ports in Palestine, dated 1948 (f 68); war graves, dated 1947 (f 73), termination of wartime agreements, dated 1946 (f 80), and releases from the merchant navy, dated 1945 and 1946 (f 83, f 85, ff 92-93).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 136; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Merchant shipping
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000079_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000079_en
IOR/R/15/2/1386
IOR/R/15/2/1386