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Fonds consists of:
Lists of instructions to yachts that have been invited to attend the B.C. Centenary Naval Review as well as ship lists, maps, and the program of events,
a programme for the transfer of HMCS Winnipeg to Belgium and the commissioning of the Belgian naval ship AF Dufour, 7 August 1959,
CNS log books from SS Commodore consisting of inventory of stores records and temporary loan cards, dating to 1958,
and, assorted gunnery plans/arrangements.

Fonds consists primarily of records relating to Island Tug & Barge dating from 1920s to 1970s.

Envelope 1:

• Lloyd’s Register of shipping certificates for SS Conchita and for SS Stockless dating to 1920s, and a certificate of ship lanters? In Dutch, dated 1924 in Rotterdam, Netherlands
• Specification documents for Island Fir class self-loading log Barges

Envelope 2:

• Newspaper clippings regarding building the Gorge Walkway and Island Tug & Barge, dating to the 1960s
• A receipt dating 1979
• Island Tug & Barge Christmas Dance invitation cards
• Blank Yarrows Limited job cards
• Blank Island Tug & Barge time slips.

Envelope 3:

• Blank Island Tug & Barge time slips
• Photocopy of 35 mm print of transverse cut away drawing of RMS Olympic
• Blank envelopes with Island Tug & Barge return stamp
• Pad of blank repair report sheets

Envelope 4:

• Mid ship plan blueprint for Tamare class ships. (Extremely poor condition)
• Photocopies of certificates and correspondences related to SS Conchita, and SS Casandra dating from 1920s to 1950s.
• Pad of blank Island Tug & Barge supply check lists

Also includes a manoeuver document with handwritten note on reverse from Vancouver Island Power Boat Squadrons dated 1942, a clipping from the Daily Colonist, Victoria dated 25 July 1945, a 1942 and 1943 issue of P.B.S. News, a booklet titled "Vancouver Island Power Boat Squadrons 1944 Annual", and various signal messages. As well as, Island Tug & Barge Limited correspondence dating to 1961, an inspection certificate for SS Sudbury, and coasting trade (customs) regulations.

Fonds consists of documents and memorabilia collected during E.A. MacFayden's naval service ca. World War II.

L293
Pages 9-12 of The Toronto Star Weekly dating to Saturday, 2 October 1935 containing an article titled "The Sea Dogs" by Culver Jones.

L477
Eight tickets and 1 programme for dances held in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia hosted by Gunners' Mates' Friendly Society in 1944 and 1945. (A list of dates and types of dances can be found in the documentation file).

L798
Invitation and menu for the pre-inaugural day banquet of the Ferry Service between Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. on 9 June 1960, addressed to Lieutenant MacFayden.

L1272
Guard book for returns containing miscellaneous papers on chemical warfare and air raid precautions.

L1282
Souvenir programme for Naval Air day, Royal Canadian Naval Air Section, Dartmouth, 21 July 1948.

L1283
Programme for the commemoration of the presentation of the King's Colours to the Royal Canadian Navy Pacific Command, Esquimalt, B.C., 30 May 1939.

L1297
Folder containing lecture notes, photographs, and graphs and charts relating to smoke screening.

L3430
Two documents from Instructional Production Section, HMS Excellent titled "Tactical Employment of a Naval Howitzer Battery" dated 2 June 1938 and "Stores and Accounts" dated 5 May 1944.

Fonds consists of documents describing the dimensions, etc. of M/V Wellington Kent ex HMCS North Bay and the M/V Galloway Kent ex HMCS North Bay.

Fonds consists of personal and professional papers related to Captain D.W. Groos and Commander H.V.W. Groos.

L3
Handwritten note addressed to Commander Groos from George C. Etheridge in Monterry Oak, California. Envelope is postmarked 2 August 1951.

L483
Handwritten account of HMS Shearwater sailing to Madeira in November 1901 and a newspaper clipping from Thursday, 12 April 1979 containing a letter to the editor written by L.R. Ferris, nephew of George Charles Etheridge, passenger of HMS Shearwater in 1901.

L3804
Issue of "The Tiddley Times" the W.R.C.N.S. magazine, dating to January/February 1945.

L4015
Photocopies of papers relating to the barque Elissa, including pages from Lloyd's register of shipping, a builder's certificate for sailing vessels, written history of the ship, correspondence, accountant reports, plans and carts, and general lists and notes, dating primarily to the 1970s.

L4054
Photocopy of the history of the barque Elissa from its construction in 1877 until 1970 including lists of voyages, lists of casualties, a personal account from 1961, and correspondence from Lloyd's register of shipping dating to the 1970s.

L4055
Photocopy of Greek registry records, entirely in Greek, referencing barque Elissa, dating to 1959?

003.028.0001-0003
Book titled "British Columbia Pilot Volume I: Coasts of the United States and British Columbia from Cape Flattery, Juan de Fuca Strait to Cape Caution Together with Vancouver Island", fifth edition, 1923. Also, contracts from Canadian Merchant Service Guild dating from 1939 to 1941.

005.006.0001-0002
Book titled "The Way of a Ship: An Essay on the Literature of Navigation Science" by Lawrence C. Wroth, 1937 and 1 sheet of 1975 Canadian commemorative ships stamps.

Fonds consists of an undated diagram/plan showing gun sights and mounting, a diagram showing the production of fuze hacs, and a document containing diagrams/drawings describing different types of firearms.

Also includes a document describing the executive organization of HMCS Uganda and a collection of seamanship examination questions.

Fonds consists of photographs and documents relating to the personal and professional life of J.K. Slater. Includes a naval pay identity booklet, a name stencil, Empress of Scotland passenger list 1952, a 1951 history of HMCS Ontario, mess rules card for HMCS Peregrin, 1963 dress code for HMCS Mackenzie, and exercise notebooks.

Also includes various training notebooks including daily exercises, know your ship, rifle drills, weapons department organization, D/C analog computers, and instructions and parts breakdown for torque trip unit.

Also includes technical reports, charts, drawings, and diagrams, gunner tests, conversion tables, technical procedures, etc. dating from 1962 and 1963.

Fonds consists of material collected by Phyllis Bayley, WRCNS, during her service in World War II.

988.092.0001
Scrapbook containing a large collection of photos of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service including both individual and group shots. The people are not identified. There are also photographs of HMCS Cornwallis ca. 1945.

988.092.0002
Scrapbook containing a collection of photographs of service women in uniform, HMCS Cornwallis, Commander MacNeill, Commodore Finch-Noyes, and HMCS Avalon.

988.092.0004
Scrapbook containing a large collection of photographs of service women in uniform, of HMCS Cornwallis, and of Phyllis Bayley.

988.092.0005
Scrapbook titled "Snaps and Scraps - My Life in the Navy", containing photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Phyllis Bayley's time in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II including photos of various vessels and other women in uniform.

988.098.0001
Our Navy magazine, 1957.

988.098.0002
Our Navy magazine, 1955.

988.098.0003
The WREN Newsletter, August 1949.

988.098.0004
WREN Reunion magazine, Toronto, Ontario, 1950.

988.098.0005
WRCNS Reunion Magazine, Vancouver, August 1958.

988.098.0006
Vancouver Reunion souvenir edition of the WREN Newsletter, August 1958.

988.098.0007
United States Navy Occupational Handbook: A Manual for Civilian Guidance Counselors Schools and Libraries also Employment and Youth Agencies, published by the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, D.C., 1959.

988.098.0008
HMCS Cornwallis magazine.

988.098.0009
Canadian Forces Sentinel magazine, November 1965.

988.098.0010
Typewritten booklet titled "The Cornwallis Christmas Story: or (Once Upon a Passing-Out Ceremony)", as told by P.S. Milson, RCN. And, two newspaper clippings, a Paris 1937 Exhibition bookmark, and an RCN draft order, dated 1946.

988.098.0011
Certificate from Civil Defence Canada awarded to Phyllis L. Bayley for her service as a volunteer worker for civil defense in the war against Germany dated 1945.

988.098.0012
Canadian Civic Defence College folder containing assorted documents and reports relating to the Department of National Health and Welfare including blank forms, training documents, and handwritten notes.

988.098.0013
Folder containing Phyllis Bayley's Royal Canadian Navy reports regarding regulations relating to obedience, punishments for disobedience, and lists of offences as well as some correspondence, dating to the 1950s.

988.098.0014
General reports and documents of the Royal Canadian Navy including blank forms and documents describing regulations and policies.
988.098.0015
Assorted publications related to Royal Canadian Navy Service and Naval recruitment including booklets, brochures, pamphlets regarding recruitment and naval training for officers, WRENS, and nurses, and a few miscellaneous typed documents dating primarily to the 1950s.

988.098.0016
Assorted pages and clippings from the Cornwallis Ensign newspaper and the Wren Newsletter newspaper, dating from 1957 to 1966. Also a Ceremony of the Flags pamphlet, The Port Royal Habitation booklet and a photograph of four unidentified women and a man in uniform.

988.098.0017
General reports of the Royal Canadian Navy relating to regulations and procedures for leave, pensions, drills, signals, etc. As well as the procedure in the event of pregnancy of a WREN and photocopies of posters and tables. Most are undated, but some dated to 1956.

988.098.0018
Collection of Christmas cards, correspondence, and poems dating from 1944 to the 1960s. Also, a coloured print of HMS Rodney (battleship) and HMCS Saguenay.

Fonds consists of personal papers, manuals, charts, and drawings related to the naval career of Douglas Richard Tanner. Includes correspondence, certificates, receipt, commemorative programmes, cards, photographs, postcards, membership cards, newspaper clippings, and informational pamphlets for various vessels and planes.

Also includes an IRD Mechanalysis handbook and instruction manual.

Fonds consists of assorted log books dating from 1848 to 1976.

L238:
Signals Log for HMCS Armentieres dating from 22 October 1928 to 28 May 1929.

L552:
Deck log book from HMCS Armentieres dating from 16 April 1931 to July 1931.

L553:
Log book for HMCS Naden dating from 1929 to 1930.

L750:
Log book containing handwritten meeting minutes of the committee on establishment of permanent and consumable stores dating from March to May 1912.

L857:
Log book containing Data on Warships and other vessels supported by HMC Dockyard 1898-1917. This ledger appears to have been compiled by a dockyard official and contains several sets of records including all warships and other vessels supported by the Dockyard from 1898 to 1917, colliers that arrived Esquimalt from 1914 to 1917 with quantities of coal discharged and sources (whether Welsh or local or Australian), names of Admiralty colliers and transports that called at Esquimalt in 1915, a brief descriptions of coaling stations on the BC coast, lists of personnel employed in Esquimalt Dockyard from 1911 to 1917, wages paid from 1914 to 1915, and record of times to coal ships on various dates in 1917 which records how long coaling took and the average rate per hour.

L859:
Shipwright's journal from HMCS Ontario. The original journal pages have been cut out and replaced with plans and diagrams.

L874:
Official Log book of the Canadian Sealing Schooner Dora Sieward dated 18 January 1898. Also includes general regulations.

L1410:
Visitor's book.

L1411:
Blank log book for Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, ca. 1920s.

L2811a-d:
Signal log books for HMS Triumph dating from January 1882 to August 1884 and a signal log book for HMS Swiftsure dating from August to November 1884.

L3316a-b:
Journals consisting of notes, messages, and reflections dating from 31 July to 5 October 1916 and 6 October to 24 November 1916.

L3540:
Log book of HMCS Patrician dating from 1 January 1928 to 28 February 1921.

L4505:
Telegram registers dating from 6 August 1914 to 22 November 1915

984.031.0001-0003:
HMCS Patrician night rounds books dating to 1927.

985.076.0001-0006:
Specification booklets for various vessels including SS Canada Maru, SS Sima, SS Chouk, SS Saga, SS Sind, and SS Sarak dating from 1916 to 1918 and 1941.

986.042.0006:
(In ARC 59, need info)

986.098.0001-0002:
Undated gunners' Ledgers for explosive and non-explosive torpedo stores.

993.003.0052-0053:
Captain's Night Order Books dating from 1955 to 1957.

993.003.0054-056:
(in ARC 52, need info)

001.004.0005:
Log book of HMS Trafalgar dating from 1848 to 1868.

2023.021.0001:
Pilot House log of the Princess Marguerite from 1976.