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Fonds consists of three scrapbooks and a photo album containing newspaper clippings relating to military sporting events in Victoria between 1937 and 1944 as well as clippings relating to the Navy's participation in the Royal Visit to Victoria in 1939.

Fonds consists of a letter addressed to Mr. R. Godden from C.B. Bailey explaining an attached document referring to submarines CC1 and CC2 and their acquisition by the Premier of British Columbia in 1914, by the son of the chief engineer of the Electric Boat Company of Seattle, builders of the submarines.

Fonds consists of documents relating to M/V Valene and Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company

1. Collection of 'noon cards' and other report cards, documentation cards, and paperwork required for oceangoing vessels relating to voyages of M/V Vanlene prior to wrecking in Barclay Sound in 1972,

2. U.S. Customs logs dating to 1967, M/V Valene plans and charts, and Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company Limited Line blank exception sheets,

3. Charts and tables, crew list in English and Chinese?, and stowage plans, dating to the 1970 and 1971,

4. Documents relating to M/V Valene and Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company, including blank forms and correspondence in English and Japanese,

5. Documents relating to M/V Valene and Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company, including statement of facts concerning the loading of potash, declaration of crew's baggages, receipts, certificates, and charts and tables, dating to 1970 and 1971, in English and Japanese,

6. Assorted documents, primarily handwritten notes and receipts, in English and Japanese, related to Yamashita-Shinnihon Steamship Company, Soo-Chow & Company Limited Ship Chandlers, and Mikado Enterprises Limited. Also, a log book dating to 1972 in Japanese, and a a food allowance log book for M/V Valene,

7. Documents such as correspondence, reports, and charts and tables In English and Japanese dating to 1972, relating to Tokai Ship Enterprise Company Limited and The Showa Marine Industry Company Limited,

8. Store capacity charts, calculation sheets, crew lists in English and Chinese?, and survey reports regarding M/V Valene. Also a folder with Japanese characters on it.

Fonds consists of three certificates of discharge and a mariner's register ticket belonging to William Fischer dating to 1845, 1852, and 1856 from the ships Ulverstone, Ann, and Sarah.

Fonds consists of a poem, handwritten on a naval signals form used in crossing the line ceremony in HMCS Rainbow, written by Lieutenant Commander L.S. Jones, R.C.N. for the occasion, dated August 1910.

Fonds consists of a log book for SS Canora dating from 28 April to 4 November 1937 and a log book dating from November 1937 to November 1938.

Fonds consists of survey log book kept by Captain Webber for various vessels surveyed and a blank checklist pamphlet titled "Measurement for tonnage and crew space accommodation also particulars of lights, fog, signals and life-saving appliances", issued by the Department of Transport.

981.015.0001-0005
Three continuous certificates of discharge booklets of Clarence J. Bonner, no. 947895 for service 1 May 1918 until 15 June 1944, listing names of ports and dates of discharge. Slipped inside the back of the first book is a certificate issued by the general register and record office of shipping and seamen dated 15 January 1919, listing the vessels on which C. Bonner served from 1916 to 1918.

Also includes a certificate of competency first class engineer (steamship) for Clarence J. Bonner no. 60423 dated 10 September 1924 and a photocopy of a scroll/monument awarded to Clarence J. Bonner by Canadian Pacific Railway Company for his service during World War I.

988.161.0035
Documents and correspondence relating to RMS Empress of Japan and Canadian Pacific Steamships ca. World War II. Includes handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, narrative accounts of various naval operations, professional correspondence, instructions, and several issues of "Serial Waves" newsletter. These documents are housed in an RMS Empress of Russia leather document holder.

Fonds consists of a crew list for HMCS Venture for maiden cruise 1938 with illustrated track chart and a photocopy of an article titled "A training Schooner for Canada's Navy" copied from "Yachting Magazine", March 1938.

Fonds consists of a typewritten account of the HMCS Thiepval minesweeper, titled "Ten Thousand Miles on the Thiepval", by Frederick B. Watt, copied from the Edmonton Journal 25 October 1924.

Also includes a booklet titled "Boy Blue's Verses", by Frederick Balmer Watt, Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve, published in Edmonton, Alberta, 1918.