The Dockside Cargo Claim

≈ 6 min

A consignment of goods bound for Rotterdam was damaged when a warehouse roof partially collapsed during a storm on 14 March 1923. Fenwick & Greer Ltd. have filed a loss-claim schedule with the Atlantic & Colonial Marine Insurance Co., itemising six categories of damaged goods and their declared values. The insurer's adjuster has assembled four cross-reference records — a landing manifest, a survey report, a rate invoice, and a trade register — to verify the claim. Your task is to determine whether any line on the schedule contradicts the supporting records, and if so, which record reveals the discrepancy.

The scene

Port of Harwich, England, 1923

Source documents

Landing Manifest — SS Aldgate, Berth 7, 10 March 1923
Loss Survey Report — Warehouse 4 Roof Collapse, 14 March 1923
Cobbold's Brewery Dispatch Invoice No. 1187, 8 March 1923
Broadwood & Sons Piano Register, Entry 74112

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