Shipbuilding Industry

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): MSS.292/ 619/1- 619.63/5

Title: Shipbuilding Industry

Date(s): 1924 - 1936

Level of description: series

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Scope and content: This section includes files on wages and conditions, naturalisation, disarmament and the continued use of the Dockyards, 1922-33, and the Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries National Advisory Committee, 1941-6, 1949-56. Also included are files on foreign workers, including Asian and Black (West African notably) sailors working on British vessels in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Recorder's note: Fully indexed July 2002 MR.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Black, Asian

Specific group: West African

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Employment

Black and Asian Seamen

Naturalization

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Engineering and Shipbuilding Industries National Advisory Committee

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