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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 programme for the Silver Jubilee Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty the Queen, held at Spithead, 28 June 1977.

Fonds consists of certificates of service of Chas. (Charles?) P. Bloomfield in the Royal Navy, specifically aboard HM ships Topaze, Sutiej, Grappler, and Forward, all of which served on Pacific Station. Period of service dates from 4 August 1858 to 2 June 1869.

Fonds consists of a journal containing sproting notes on the pacific station by Lieutenant C.T. Hodgson, Royal Navy, HMCS Shearwater c. 1902-1905.

These are notes compiled by the writer for the benefit of his fellow officers. They are contained in a 'Torpedo Log & Progress Book'. At some later date the book was used as a scrap book and has a great number of pictures pasted into it, some covering portions of Hodgson's work.

Fonds consists of

L600-L601

• Department of Naval Services files on HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt machinery and plant, prior to 1911 and from 1911 to 1914. Consists of specifications, reports, and correspondence dating primarily from 1895 to 1914.

984.030

• Binder containing envelopes full of confidential Department of the Naval Service documents.

986.030

• 75th Anniversary of the Naval Service of Canada event, a 1985 package including a news release, fact sheet, schedule of events and other documents as well as a pin and a Canadian Forces Pacific coin, a programme for the 75th anniversary fleet regatta, and a souvenir programme titled "shipmates ashore".

986.101

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal, some written in pencil, dating from 21 April 1917 to 4 July 1917.

986.102

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, dating to July and August 1914. Vol 1 is carved into front cover.

986.104

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal, dating from 16 July 1920 to 11 November 1920.

986.105

• Blank schedules of accounts log books for HMC ships.

986.107

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal dating from 19 December 1919 to 29 April 1920.

986.108

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal, dating from 19 December 1919 to 29 April 1920. Also includes some correspondence.
• Department of the naval service log book of Royal Canadian Navy classes dating from 1929 to 1937.

986.109

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services for the Naval Intelligence Office, Esquimalt, BC naval messages cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal as well as many handwritten messages in pencil, dating from 1 December 1917 to 20 February 1920.

986.110

• Naval store office log of the Department of Naval Services kept by the naval store officer, dating from 11 August 1916 to 1 August 1917.

986.111

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages, cut out and pasted to the pages of the journal, some written in pencil, dating from 10 Februray 1915 to 10 August 1916.

986.112

• Telegraph register log book consisting of Department of Naval Services naval messages dating from 15 April 1915 to 30 July 1915.

986.113

• Log book “IX” dated February to May 1916.

986.115

• Department of External Affairs document issued by the secretary of state for the colonies to the governor general dated 23 May 1911, regarding the transfer of admiralty property to Esquimalt.

986.116

• Article titled "Esquimalt Dockyard's First Building" dated 16 October 1946. Appears to have been cut out of a book or magazine.

986.117

• Photocopy of an article titled "HMCS Bra D'or: Ten Years in Retrospect" by Thomas G. Lynch.

986.118

• Rivtow Marine Limited booklet containing specifications and information regarding the company and the Log Barge Rivtow Norseman dated 31 May 1969.

986.120

• Volume 5 Number 4 of "The Log", the annual review of the Royal Canadian Naval College, Royal Roads, B.C. dating to 1946.

Also contains log books from the Naval Yard at Esquimalt. Also contains a book of ships calculations for the Naval Technical School at Esquimalt.

Fonds consists of a photo album with images of the cannons at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, a report regarding the historical ordnance collection at Fort Beausejour National Historic Site, assorted photographs o the Lynx Guns being tested in England, documents related to the armouries of the Tower of London, and a booklet consisting of information and pictures of various armories.

Fonds consists of documents regarding the surrender of the German battle fleet, the High Seas Fleet in 1918. Contains operations and naval signals.

Fonds consists of certificates relating to the service of Charles Edward Stewart and Lieutenant William Stewart.

• Certificate from William B. Pauli, consul of his British Majesty in Buenos Aires to Charles Edward Stewart, dated 26 October 1882, entirely in Spanish,
• Two handwritten letters dated 18 July and 22 July 1814, signed by W. Steward, HMS San Josef addressed to captain John Phillips, RN and my brother which begins by saying “The French fleet are now in sight” and lists how Stewart wished his property to be divided equally between his son and daughter and enumerating how he wished various effects divided and debts owed to his Coxswain and servant,
• Commissioning certificate appointing Lieutenant William Stewart as lieutenant of HMS Royal William, dated 15 may 1797,
• Commissioning certificate appointing William Stewart as commander of HMS [?], dated May 1810.

Fonds consists of a small book/album containing small ships badges cut out from stationary and pasted into patterns. Probably date c. 1890. There is also a loose page and loose stencil page.

Fonds consists of a letter written to the editors of Saanich Peninsula and Gulf Islands Review, February 1955, by Edmund Oldfield providing some historical information regarding HMS Ganges. The information supplied is the authors recollections and may not be correct.