Fonds consists of a photocopy of Coombe's diary of voyages from 1886 to 1895. The diary details events, deaths, winds, and weather on voyages. Also lists ships that Coombe served on.
Coombe, B.C.Family and Personal Life
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Fonds consists of 5 photo albums containing memorabilia relating to ships, the Navy, and global travel dating from the 1940s until the 1970s.
Box 1
Album 1: Contains memorabilia related to the Sea Cadet Corps and global travel including photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, certificates, official documents, programs. Documents date from 1942 to 1948.
Album 2: Contains memorabilia relating to global travel including photographs, menus, pamphlets programmes, guide books, newspaper clippings, Documents date from 1948 to 1958.
Album 3: Contains memorabilia related to Cunard Steamship Company Limited including invitations, passenger lists, promotional pamphlets, menus, cards, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, and letters. Also includes documents relating to Kent Line Limited, Motor Vessel Owners, the Royal Navy, and Royal Mail Ships. Documents date from 1958 to 1968.
Box 2
Album 4: Contains documents notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Titanic, the Queen Mary I and II, The Queen Elizabeth II the Queen Mary II, the Royal Navy, the Royal Merchant Navy; the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, and the Shanghai Incident of 1949.
Album 5: Contains photos of North West Territories Marine Operations from 1976 to 1979.
Fonds consists of a handwritten letter written by the donor's uncle, Albert Hall in Esquimalt, to his sister, the donor's mother, Marjorie Hall, of Hoare Farm, Sturrey, near Canterbury, Kent, dated 11 September 1904.
Hall, AlbertFonds consists of a copy of the B.C. Marine Association constitution and bylaws, two newspaper clipping obituaries, a clipping from "The Province" newspaper 16 October 1995 describing fire destroying an old ship, and a photocopy of a clipping from "The Province" 11 September 1995 describing SS Prince George.
Galbraith, Allen