Bank, finance & insurance
Dover room
Also called the room · Dover underwriters · the local room · the underwriters · the insurers
About fourteen local underwriters who insure hulls, cargo and the crossing, pricing the Narrow Sea from a book of losses that no London office matches.
The underwriters of Dover, who insure hulls and cargoes on the crossing.
Named with it
- Underwriter Rachel Folkestone
- Underwriter Grace Sandling
- Chart-Maker Osbert Fordwich
- Underwriter Josiah Sandwich
Ties
- local rival and partner of the Blue Ledger Company
- insures the Dover packet service
- consults the repair books of Archcliffe Yard
In the chronicle
At the table
Rates are built on the destination harbour first and are never explained; larger houses buy its opinion rather than replace it. Four standing declinations, the fourth (from 4616) against any hull on the four older bearings moved during the Black Wake. Has three times refused a bone-broker's offer to find sunk hulls by asking the dead. Surcharges lone closed-month sailings by a third. Consults Redd's repair book, writes 'Bleuval terms' and 'Rougeclair premiums', and is the best guide to how dangerous a harbour is. Crossing insurance was repriced after the Azure Banner. Their count of lost hulls differs from the packet office's. They hire bands to escort cargo, watch hulls and attend valuations.