IOR/L/E/8/1612

File includes:

• Schedule showing maximum amounts of compensation payable for war damage to Effects of seamen, according to their rank or rating, who served on merchant ships, pilot boats, lighthouse tenders and lightship tenders (September 1939)
• Draft of a Ministry of Shipping Notice, to Masters, Officers and Seamen of Merchant Ships, on the Payment of Extra Wages to Masters, Officers and Seamen of Merchant Ships Lost by Enemy Action (December 1939)
• Statutory Rules and Orders entitled “Merchant Shipping - Compensation (War Damage to Effects)” (London: HMSO, 1939-45)
• Statutory Rules and Orders entitled “Pension - War Pensions and Detention Allowances (Mercantile Marine etc.) Scheme” (London: HMSO, 1939-42)
• Ministry of Pensions leaflet no. 2 entitled “Mercantile Marine, Fishing Fleets, Pilotage and Light Vessel Services - Compensation for War Injuries and Detention, 1939”
• Mercantile Marine and Fishing Fleets Notice, to Masters, Officers and Seamen and Members of the Pilotage and Light Vessels’ Services, on the subject of “War Damage to Effects” (Board of Trade Notice No.M.172, 5^TH September 1939)
• The Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act, 1942 (London: HMSO, 1942)
• Statutory Rule and Order 1944 No.1252 entitled “War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme” (London: HMSO, 1944)
• Statements, for the period 1942-43, showing the names of seamen who were paid compensation for loss of their Effects under The Compensation to Seamen (War Damage to Effects) Amendment Scheme [statements includes the names of the ships the seamen served on, their ratings and individual compensation amounts awarded]