Fonds consist of a journal kept by Miller on way from Scotland to South Africa to marry husband. Contains interesting pen and ink sketch: "Arrival of SS Saxon at Durban. D. Buchanan, Glasgow, 1902."

Fonds consists of documents and memorabilia related to the personal and professional lives of Commander G.R. MacFarlane and John Macfarlane including documents collected during their time in naval training and during their careers as well as documents and ephemera collected during their travels.

George R. MacFarlane's collection consists of documents including notes, certificates of service, biographical information, medical records, records of examinations, reports, Canadian Forces Base, Esquimalt constitutions and by-laws, maps, charts, and correspondence dating from 1946 to the 1970s. Also includes identity cards and a war service badge dated 1998.

Also includes a booklet titled "Notes on Court Martial Procedure" published by the office of the deputy judge advocate with an 1956 HMCS Stettler stamp and three copies of a form titled "Particulars Respecting Candidate for Acting Sub-Lieutenant", revised November, 1933. Form has not been filled out.

John MacFarlane's collection consists of documents, exercise books, photographs, and memorabilia primarily related to John MacFarlane's time as a naval cadet in the 1960s including correspondence, naval messages, cards and invitations, receipts, leave request and authorization forms, notebooks, and general training documents. Also includes travel memorabilia from B.C. Ferries dating to the 1990s including tickets, baggage tags, and dinner menus, and ephemera related to the Holland American Line.

Also includes assorted naval memorabilia dating to the 1950s and 1960s including a Barry's Salmon label, a 1957 price list, a fishing licence, a list of steam launch operators, a programme for the annual inspection of RCSCC Rainbow, an instruction manual for basic slide rules, several hand drawn charts, a mariners compass, assorted tickets, a book of comics titled "Eod Antics" by Pholcox, a booklet celebrating 60 years of RCSCC Rainbow, commissioning booklets for HMCS Chaleur, Fundy, Thunder, Chignecto, naval cap tallies booklet volume 1, and a picture book of ships.

Also includes handwritten auditor general's reports from 1896 to 1897, 1914, 1930, and 1938; HMCS Stettler Dependents Day Cruise programme from 2 August 1957, a letter from the Department of National Defense from 15 July 1968, and Royal Sealink Express safety procedures.

Also includes a book titled "Navigators and Shipwrecks: Australia's Heritage in Stamps", published 1985 consisting of a complete stamp set slipped into sleeve in front of book. As well as an envelope addressed to Mrs. Kathleen MacFarlane, from the Navy Department dated 1961, a blank pad of Island Tug & Barge Limited time-slips, a blank pad of Department of Defence sight forms, a draft handbook on oceanography Northeast Pacific Ocean by Dr. L.F. Giovando, a 1989 calendar with John M. MacFarlane stamped onto front, and assorted business cards, photographs, labels from tinned salmon, postcards featuring images of various vessels, and some envelopes.

Also includes a document titled "Some Naval Customs and Social Practices" by Lieutenant-Commander F.E. Grubb, R.N.C., correspondence related to the British cemetery on San Juan Island, a booklet titled "Royal Tour of Canada 1959", a Maritime Museum newsletter from May 1992, and a newspaper clipping regarding Maritime Museum.

Fonds consists of documents relating to the careers of David Logan (donor's great grandfather) and Daniel Holliday (donor's grandfather) who both worked for the Canadian Government Telegraph and Telephone Service, and to the history of the the West coast of Vancouver Island and the development of the West Coast Trail.

Includes David Logan's 1907 telegraph line log book, Daniel Holliday's 1938-1944 telegraph line log book, and an album containing letters and newspaper clippings collected by the family over the years.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of the diary of L. Frank Coxwain, private on HMS Amethyst during its journey on the Yaneste River in 1949. Also includes some photocopies of correspondence dating to 1949 and photos of the ship and the crew.

Fonds consists of log books and journals of voyages between Liverpool and Bombay (now called Mumbai) in the 1850s and 1860s, commanded by James C. Peters.

L1382 – Log book from the ship Sarah of Liverpool, James C. Peters, Master, on the voyage from Bombay to Liverpool 15 December 1857 to 14 May 1858, kept by William Kimming (?), chief officer. Latter pages show stores received at Bombay and writing exercises.

L1383 – Journal consisting of handwritten memorandums on a passage from Liverpool to Bombay, 25 September 1862 to 19 January 1863 and returning 4 April 1863 to 23 July 1863, in the ship Queen of the Seas commanded by James Carter Peters. Slipped inside the front cover is an account of wages form dated 3 August 1963.

L1384 – Log book of a voyage of the ship Queen of the Seas commanded by James Carter Peters from Liverpool to Bombay 28 September 1864 to 18 January 1865 and from Bombay to Liverpool 28 April 1865 to 3 July 1865.

L1385 – Log book of the ship Sarah, commanded by James C. Peters, kept by chief officer, from Liverpool to Bombay 15 December 1856 to 4 May 1857, then form Bombay to Currachee 4 July 1857 to 25 July 1857, and Currachee to Bombay 2 October 1857 to 8 October 1857.

L1386 – Log book of the voyage of the ship Queen of the Seas commanded by James C. Peters from Liverpool to Bombay 13 August 1863 to 20 December 1863 and from Bombay to Liverpool 23 march 1864 to 28 July 1864.

L1387 – Log book of brig. Earl Grey commanded by John Sharp of voyage from Liverpool to Valparaiso, 1852. Remainder of book contains notes on education, poems, etc.

L1388 – Diary kept by James C. Peters, irregularly from December 30 1853 until 1858. The first part records the voyage from Liverpool to Geelong, Australia.

L1389 – Journal recording correspondence between James C. Peters and Mssrs. T. & S. Brocklebank 7 July 1856, and to Mssrs. Stewart and Douglas 11 June 1859. From ships Barque Esk, Barque Valparaiso, and Sarah.

L1390 – Bound notebook containing handwritten notes and worked examples on astronomical observations and the use of lunar tide tables in the Nautical Almanac. The bulk of the notebook is a journal record of a voyage by Captain Peters accompanied by his nephew John Peters in the steamer Rochdale May 27 to 26 August in 1879 from Cardiff out to the Black Sea and return. The first leg was to Ancoa, Italy with coal, followed by a passage to Odessa in ballast where grain was loaded for Marseille. From Marseille, the ship returned to Odessa in ballast, then loaded grain that was transported to London. Includes observations about Odessa, Ancoa, and Marseilles. In the back of the notebook are miscellaneous newspaper clippings including letters to the editor by Peters 1881 and 1889.

L1391 – Handwritten and typed copies of "An Ancient Prayer", supposed to be by James I King of Scotland. Found in Log of ship Queen of the Seas c. 1870. Also, ripped piece of an envelope? Addressed "Queen of Seas, S.S. Sarah, Documents re Seal Indian Hunting + others part of legacy to Victoria maritime Museum". "R Peters/ Okanagan Landing/ 1908/64".

L1392 – Journal consisting of memorandums on a voyage from Liverpool to Bombay in the ship Queen of the Seas, commanded by James C. Peters, written by James C. Peters 29 August 1863 to 19 December 1863. The remainder of the journal consists of a description of a voyage from Bombay to Liverpool in S/V Queen of the Seas, commanded by James C. Peters, 1865. Also includes various newspaper clippings of letters-to-the-editor written by James Peters from 26 September and 6 December 1876 while living in Austwick, United Kingdom published in the “Examiner and Trade” newspaper about the narrow escape from loss of the training ship HMS Tenedos off the entrance to the Strait of Magellan in 1876. Another clipping from the “Liverpool Mercury” newspaper, 11 January 1860 describes the actions taken by Captain Peters while in command of the ship Sarah to save the life of a sailor who had fallen from aloft. Peters had promptly jumped overboard and rescued the sailor. There are also two printed handbills (posters) advertising the sale, in Hong Kong, on 8 March 1867 of the barque Sea Nymph, one of which has a handwritten note written by Peters recording that he has been sent to Hong Kong by the owners in late 1866 to take possession of the ship that had been aground on the China coast as the former captain had since died. Peters had travelled overland and then by P&O with full authority to act for the owners. The ship had been trading between ports in the China Seas for 4 to 5 years after last leaving England. Peters had decided to sell the vessel by auction and reported that a wealthy Chinese merchant had purchased her for a good price.

L1393 – Handwritten letters concerning the ship Sarah and the Indian mutiny of 1857. The first consisting of orders to J.C. Peters, master, to proceed to Kurrachee from Bombay, dated 30 June 1857, signed by C-in-C Indian Navy. Also, a note by J.C. Peters on reverse. The second is from Deputy Collector of Customs, Kurrachee to Captain Peters thanking him for work and rewarding crew with sum of Rs 120 dated 25 September 1857. Also, note on reverse by J.C. Peters concerning disposal of Rs 120.

Fonds consists of a log book of the proceedings of HMS Talbot, captained by H.J. Godrington (sp?), kept by Herbert Frederick Winnington Ingram, college midshipman, from 31 May 1838 to 9 July 1840. The log book includes detailed voyage logs, diary entries, and drawings.

Fonds consists of documents and memorabilia collected by several members of the Pullen family relating to their various naval careers.

L107
A newspaper clipping dated 1956 containing an article detailing the history of the Victoria Cross from the Crimean War to the present and a newspaper clipping from the back of a calendar describing SS Beaver off Fort Victoria in 1846.

L179
A book titled "The Pullen Records" consisting of photocopies of various records. The records consist generally of a number of historical records of HM Ships in the Arctic compiled by H.F. Pullen in 1954. Specifically included is the log book of T.C. Pullen, Royal Navy, from HMS Cambria and HMS North Star, extracts of T.C. Pullen's journals kept while master of HMS North Star in the 1850s, an extract from the admiralty board of inquiry where T.C. Pullen was a witness, a monthly meteorological report from September 1852 to April 1854, extracts of naval messages and correspondence, a map of the routes taken by W.J.S. Pullen from 1849 to 1851 in the Arctic, an account of the search for the Franklin expedition, and general notes of the life of Vice-Admiral W.J.S. Pullen.
(The catalogue card states that it is book 18 of 25).

L614
Programme for the 90th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication at St. Paul's Church, Esquimalt, 12 December 1956.

L716-L717
Commemorative book and programme for the launching day of the world's first atomic powered vessel, the submarine USS Nautilus, 21 January 1954.

L999
Log book kept by Commander William J.S. Pullen from the HMS Falcon in 1855 and HMS Cyclops dating from 1857 to 1860. Also, a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Vice-Admiral William J.S. Pullen, describing his accomplishments with the South Australia Company, in the Bay of Fundy, on an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, and commanding HMS North Star in Sir E. Belcher's Arctic expedition, among others. Includes a section titled "Remarks HM Steam Sloop Salem" describing angorages in the Baltic in 1855, a section titled “Journal of Proceedings HMS Steam Frigate Cyclops on Voyage to the Red Sea for the purpose of Sounding for the bed of electric cable” which consists of a narattive ending with ships about to be docked at Bombay in April 1860, and a section titled “A Few Remarks on the Chart of Bomany Harbour with no name as to its maker” .

Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Harry F. Leggett, relating primarily to his service in World War II. Documents include ration books, liquor permit, short leave application cards, naval telegrams, handwritten correspondence, and a list of survivors and missing from HMCS Margaree.

Fonds also includes newspaper clippings dating from the 1950s, a 1957 commissioning booklet for HMCS Fraser, and a handwritten journal detailing Leggett's war record in 1939 and 1940.

Fonds consists of log books of Logs of HMS Conqueror, HMS Crescy, and HMS Diadem, kept by G.H.B. Reed from 1856 to 1862.

Fonds consist of a manuscript written by Barrick, detailing his history in the Royal Canadian Navy: "Canada's Naval Pioneers."