Created May 2, 2009
Updated
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My 2009 enquiries seeking to gain confirmation of Jeremiah Riney's awards for his WWI and WWII service yielded nothing. The Australian Awards & Honors Directorate were able to confirm the five medals Jeremiah received for his WWII service. They being more appreciative of those who served than UK entities.
UK-NA's web site provides the following caveat in their
section dealing with the Registry of Shipping & Seamen:
"Cards dating from 1913 to 1921 were destroyed in 1969
for unknown reasons."
Jeremiah Riney's Shipping Service Record that he requested from the then Cardiff office was date stamped January 28, 1959 and mailed to him in Brisbane, Australia. Such seamen records if they still exist are no longer available in Cardiff having since been moved to UK-NA?
Under Ability and Conduct a code of a "zero with a slash" was coded for the ships listed below. Its meaning was described at the end of the incomplete account of ships Jeremiah had sailed on.
"The official logs rendered for these voyages have been destroyed."
Among twenty ships whose logs were destoyed covering the period Sept 1924 to October 1935 were:
Daydream, Bassa, Nebraska, Pacheco, Radonshire, Baronesa,
Sea Glory, Navahoe, Navasota, Princesa, Ciscar, Campeador, Athelbeach, Loch Katrine, Erin, El Uruguayo, Narenta, Avila Star, Tower Abbey, Discoveree.
