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CYPRUS AGENCY. Agents: A. L. MANTOVANI & SONS, LARNACA.
All Policies issued abroad and made payable in the United Kingdom are required by Law to have a Government Stamp embossed thereon within TEN DAYS of their receipt in the United Kingdom.
MARINE BRANCHES. LIVERPOOL—30, EXCHANGE STREET EAST, 2. AUSTRALIA—97, PITT STREET, SYDNEY, N.S.W. NEW ZEALAND—23-25, GREY STREET, WELLINGTON. Sub-Branches or Agencies at the Principal Ports throughout the World.
MARINE POLICY No. 242 SUM INSURED £250.0.0.-
Printed: Alliance Assurance Company, Limited. Head Office: Bartholomew Lane, London, E.C.2, England. Marine Department, 40, Lime Street, London, E.C.3. Assets exceed 30 millions sterling.
Printed: 1824 Royal Societatis Vitatis coat of arms
Be it known, that CURIUM EXCAVATIONS, EPISKOPI, as well in [handwritten: his] own Name, as for and in the Name or Names of all and every Person or Persons to whom the same doth may, or shall appertain, in part or in all, doth make Assurance with the Alliance Assurance Company, Limited (hereinafter called the Company), and cause themselves and them and every of them to be Assured, lost or not lost, at and from LARNACA, CYPRUS TO PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A. in the good Ship or Vessel, called the S/S "ALMA VICTORY" or by whatsoever other Name or Names the said Ship is or shall be named or called.
The subject matter of this Assurance for so much as concerns the Assured by Agreement made between the Assured and the Company in this Policy is and shall be ADDRESS 16 cases ANTIQUITIES ---- 6 cubic metres CYPRUS
WITH PARTICULAR AVERAGE.- - To pay average if amounting to 3%, case per case. - Including the risks of theft, pilferage, non-delivery, fresh-water damage, hook, oil, sweat and/or damage by other cargo. - Subject to the Clauses attached. - Including the Risks of War & Strikes, as per Clauses attached.-
Beginning the Adventure upon the said Goods and Merchandize from the Loading thereof aboard the said Ship as above, and so shall continue and endure during her stay in Port(s) until the said Ship shall arrive as above, and the said Goods and Merchandize to be discharged, and safely landed. And it shall be lawful for the said Ship in this Voyage to proceed and sail to and touch and stay at, any Ports or Places whatsoever without prejudice to this Assurance. And touching the Adventures and Perils which the Company are contented to bear and take upon them in this Voyage, they are of the Seas, Men of War, Fire, Enemies, Pirates, Rovers, Thieves, Jettisons, Letters of Mart and Counter-Mart, Surprisals, Takings at Sea, Arrests, Restraints and Detainments of all Kings, Princes and People, of what Nation, Condition, or Quality soever, Barratry of the Master and Mariners, and of all other like Perils, Losses and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandize, or any part thereof. And in case of any Loss or Misfortune, it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in and about the Defence, safeguard, and recovery of the said Goods and Merchandize, and any part thereof, without prejudice to this Assurance. And in case of any Loss, the Company will contribute according to the Rate of Quantity of the Sum herein Assured. And it is expressly declared and agreed that no acts of the Insurer or Insured in recovering, saving, or preserving the property insured, shall be considered as a waiver or acceptance of abandonment. And so the Company are contented with this Assurance for the sum of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY POUNDS ONLY As agreed: £ 3. 15. 0
N.B.—Corn, Fish, Salt, Fruit, Flour and Seed are warranted free from Average, unless General, or the Ship be stranded, sunk or bunt.—Sugar, Tobacco, Hemp, Flax, Hides and Skins are warranted free from Average under Five Pounds per cent., and all other Goods are warranted free from Average under Three Pounds per cent., unless General, or the Ship be stranded, sunk or bunt.
1.Warranted free of capture seizure arrest restraint or detainment, and the consequences thereof or of any attempt thereat; also from the consequences of hostilities or warlike operations, whether there be a declaration of war or not, civil war, revolution rebellion insurrection or civil strife arising therefrom, or piracy.
2.Warranted free of loss or damage caused by strikers locked-out workmen or persons taking part in labour disturbances riots or civil commotions.
3.Should the risks excluded by Clause 1 (P.O. & S. Clause) be reinstated in this Policy by deletion of the said Clause, or should it be deemed to mean a vessel carrying the insurance against the said risks shall not attach to the interest hereby insured or to any part thereof, then notwithstanding anything in this Policy to the contrary,
(a)the insurance against the risks of war shall cease as soon as the Ship on which the interest is carried sails from the port of loading for the purpose of the voyage insured;
(b)this policy is warranted free of any claim based upon loss of or other misfortune or adventure caused by arrests restraints or detainments of Kings Princes Rulers or peoples attempting to usurp power. In witness whereof, we, being the authorised Agents of the Company, have hereunto set our hands in Larnaca this sixteenth day of December 1947
Signature: A. L. Mantovani & Sons, handwritten
Stamp: Examined
Stamp: Larnaca Cyprus, blue oval, customs; LARNACA A.L. blue stamp
Stamp: Larnaca Cyprus, Larnaca, postal stamps
Stamp: Larnaca Cyprus stamp, blue oval; denominations 4½ and 9 pi, Cyprus stamps
Stamp: A.M. 83.
PAYABLE IN LARNACA A. L. MANTOVANI & SONS.-
prompt notice of loss or damage must be given, that they may, if necessary, appoint a surveyor.
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