Fonds consists of the personal and professional papers of Harold C. Saunders relating to his naval career including a certificate of indenture and correspondence dating to the 1880s and pilotage certificates, pilotage exemption certificates, and permits dating from 1914 to 1917.

Also includes documents and correspondence relating to his his World War I service including newspaper clippings, and documents specifically relating to his time as a prisoner of war in the Karlsruhe POW camp in Germany in 1918.

Also includes correspondence between the Canadian Government Merchant Marine Limited, dating to 1922.

Fonds also includes black and white travel photographs of the South Pacific including Sidney, Australia, Malta, Singapore, ect., and three photo albums of travel photographs and photographs of various vessels. One photo is dated 1894, others are dated from 1903 to 1913.

Fonds consists primarily of documents relating to activities and the capture of the Navy of Nazi Germany (Kriegsmarine) as well as documents relating to the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy.

L1734
Hitler Youth documents, in German, belonging to Ferdinand Becker including what appear to be two passports or identification cards held in a leather case dating to 1933 and 1936 and two certificates, one dated 1938.

L1735
List of names and ranks of crew members of M/V Weser, a German ship captured off the coast of Manzanillo, Mexico by the HMCS Prince Robert in 1940.

L1736
Two newspaper clippings desribing the escape and recapture of two Nazi prisoners of war from a Calgary, Alberta area internment camp, 1941.

L1737
Newspaper clippings describing the capture of a German speed freighter by HMCS Prince Robert and other encounters between the German and Canadian Navy, 1940.

L1738
Scrapbook consisting of 4 pages and 3 photographs related to RMS Hermonthis which was intercepted by HMCS Prince Harry. Consists primarily of lists of names.

L1739
List of ships of the Royal Navy and Royal Canadian Navy which have visited Esquimalt from 1845 to 1939.

L1740
Typed report outlining the work the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve by Lieutenant G.H. Lifton.

Fonds consists of a folder containing correspondence between the Stutzpunktleiter (base action leader) of the Nazi Party and the Landesleiter (country director) of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) in San Jose, Costa Rica regarding arrangements of the association known as Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) in the German Merchantman Weser dating from 1939 to 1940, entirely in German.

And, a folder containing general correspondence of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). Consists primarily of correspondence related to the M/V Weser between the NSDAP and the Stutzpunkleiter (base action leader) of the Nazi Party dating from 1937 to 1939. Documents are all in German except one crew list which is in Spanish.

Fonds consists of three German books, possibly for the Hitler youth, one is a Christmas book, one appears to be a story book, and one is a magazine dated 1944.

The books were given to the donor by one of the boarding officers of a surrendered U-boat in 1945 when the U-boats were being dismantled and were brought to Northern Ireland. Donor was a WREN officer stationed in Ireland.