Fonds consists of a facsimile of Lord Nelson's last letter written to Lady Hamilton, 1805 collected by flag officer pacific coast.
Nelson, Lord HoratioFonds consists of telegraph register log books containing Department of Naval Services naval messages dating from 1914 to 1919. Some messages have been pasted into the pages of the book and others have been copied out in pencil.
Book L4505b also has the rules to minimize chances of mistakes or overlapping from the Naval Intelligence Department glued to the back and book 984.034.0004 has a list of passwords for W/T messages slipped into last page.
Department of Naval ServicesFonds consists of four Christmas cards:
- Featuring a black and white reproduction of a photograph of HMCS Runnymede, unsigned, undated.
- Featuring a black and white reproduction of a photograph of HMCS Hespeler, signed "From a pal Frenchy Marcel Boucher", undated.
- Featuring an HMCS Edmunston stamp, signed "from Allan", dated Christmas 1943.
- Featuring a "Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Givenchy" stamp, unsigned, undated.
Fonds consists of training books related to the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, diesel mechanics, HMCS Quadra, and the Naval Reserve. Dating to the 1980s.
- HMCS Quadra Engineering Course Notebook, 1984
- Naval Reserve Course Notebook for Diesel Mechanic 7315, 1983
- HMCS Quadra Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Sea Requirements course notebook volumes 1 and 2
- Naval Reserve Course Training Standards for Diesel Mechanic R315 level E2 parts I and II
- Comox District Free Press newspaper from 17 August 1983 with special front page “A salute to the cadets of HMCS Quadra”
- Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Sea Requirements (short cruise) YAG 300 Class notebook
- Naval Reserve Diesel Mechanic Watch keeping record book
- Canadian Patrol Frigate Project book
- Assorted notes and correspondence
Fonds consists of a single telegram sent from Reuben Hamilton from HMCS Niobe in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Mrs. M.W. Hamilton in East Vancouver dated 9 December 1917 (three days after the Halifax explosion). Telegram reads: "Escaped uninjured".
Hamilton, ReubenFonds consists of a letter from the Department of Naval Services to P.W. Nelles informing him of his appointment by the minister of the Naval Services as midshipman to HMCS Niobe, signed by Rear-Admiral E.E. Kingswell, director of Naval Service in Ottawa, dated 17 October 1910.
Nelles, P.W.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 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.
Fonds consists of assorted passenger lists, guest lists, postcards, correspondence, and invitations relating primarily to voyages to and from Manila, dating from 1921 and 1930 to 1938. There are also two United States Philippine Islands passports issued in 1931 and 1934 to Ina Elizabeth Olnick (born in Chicago 25 November 1899), accompanied by children: Benjamin S., Jr., Van M., and Barbara Lucille. The letters numbered 0010 and 0011 survived the bombing of Manila in World War II and were brought by the donor's father to Seattle in 1945 after his internment by the Japanese at Santo Tomas University, Manila, Philippine Islands, from 1942 to 1945. Also, a framed souvenir coloured drawing of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Empress of Japan.
Ohnick, BarbaraFonds consists of photocopies of documents relating generally to the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Navy and one informational booklet for the centennial of HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, photocopies of documents related to the service of William Charles Sawyer as a private in the Royal Marine Light Infantry, including civilian occupation references, dating primarily to the 1890s, and photocopies of correspondence relating to the maintenance of the graves of Royal Marines on San Juan Island, including a sketch of the grave site.
Also includes a blank, sample certificate of apprenticeship for the Royal Canadian Navy, a certificate awarded to successful apprentices on completion of apprentice training in an HMC Dockyard, and a Centennial Naval Assemblies booklet produced by the Royal Canadian Navy for the 1967 Centennial Naval Review including photos and texts of naval assemblies.