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Hello Kitty,Originally Posted by Kitty
The above not true for Merchant Navy ships. Official Log books for the WWII period are held in Kew under the ship's official number. The problem for Jue is that W.C. TEAGLE was not issued with a British Official Number and therefore there will be no crew lists held at Kew. When researching any serviceman his service records should be obtained but that said it is most unlikely that there will be any mention of Merchant Navy ships on that record.
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Hugh
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United Kingdom Ok thanks will get onto that.
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United Kingdom [QUOTE=Kitty;38107]don't worry about it.
The problem is that you are unlikely to get any crew listings. all this happened in Oct 1941. By March 1940 all log books from every merchant ship and Naval ship that was smaller than a Cruiser were automatically destroyed as the Admiralty did not have enough storage space for all of the paperwork.QUOTE]
I know this is an old posting and it is a long time since I visited this forum, but the quote above is totally misleading. British & Commonwealth Log Books & Crew Agreements from WWII are just about all intact and are held at The National Archives at Kew in file BT381 under each ships individual number as registered with Lloyd's.
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United Kingdom Yes, thats great if your ship has been registered with Lloyds, its frustrating when not, still waiting for his records due anytime now been waiting about 6 months. Thanks to all, keep commenting if you can give me any more ideas.
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United Kingdom As Hugh had mentioned previous there are no Log Book & Crew Agreements for the W.C. Teagle as she had no Official No. The point I was referring to was you make a statement that all Log Books from every Merchant ship were automatically destroyed. This is misleading to anyone who may visit the forum looking for information and take this statement as fact.
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