IOR/L/E/8/2306

File includes:

• Correspondence on the question of arrangements in place regarding wages, disbursements, etc. in connection with Danish ships seized in prize
• Case of the Gudrun Maersk, a Danish ship seized in prize at Bombay in April 1940
• Copy of proceedings in the Prize Court at Aden regarding the case of the condemnation of the motor vessel Westralia and her cargo as prize (April 1940)
• Note of a meeting held at the Department of HM Procurator General on 10^th May 1940 to discuss the disposal of cargos of Danish ships proceeded against in Prize Courts in the Colonial Dependencies
• Notes on the proceedings of a series of meetings of the Interdepartmental Co-ordination Committee, held in the Ministry Shipping Conference Room, during April and May of 1940, to deal with Danish and Scandinavian shipping [includes representations, reports and questions made by Colonial and other Governments in connection with the policy adopted on the control and seizure of vessels ]
• Draft minutes of meetings held at the Ministry of Shipping during April 1940 to consider the question of moving Norwegian vessels detained in British Control Ports
• Report by the Aliens Advisory Committee on Danish Ships and Crews (Home Office, 16^th April 1940)
• Lists of Danish and Norwegian vessels detained in British Controlled Ports overseas (April 1940)
• Instructions from the Admiralty relating to the treatment of Danish and Norwegian ships (12^th April 1940)