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Fonds consists of 5 photo albums containing memorabilia relating to ships, the Navy, and global travel dating from the 1940s until the 1970s.

Box 1
Album 1: Contains memorabilia related to the Sea Cadet Corps and global travel including photographs, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, certificates, official documents, programs. Documents date from 1942 to 1948.

Album 2: Contains memorabilia relating to global travel including photographs, menus, pamphlets programmes, guide books, newspaper clippings, Documents date from 1948 to 1958.

Album 3: Contains memorabilia related to Cunard Steamship Company Limited including invitations, passenger lists, promotional pamphlets, menus, cards, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, photos, and letters. Also includes documents relating to Kent Line Limited, Motor Vessel Owners, the Royal Navy, and Royal Mail Ships. Documents date from 1958 to 1968.

Box 2
Album 4: Contains documents notes, photographs, and newspaper clippings related to the Titanic, the Queen Mary I and II, The Queen Elizabeth II the Queen Mary II, the Royal Navy, the Royal Merchant Navy; the Royal Canadian Navy, the United States Navy, and the Shanghai Incident of 1949.

Album 5: Contains photos of North West Territories Marine Operations from 1976 to 1979.

Fonds consists of assorted photographs and newspaper clippings related to Edmund Cox, the Cox family, and various HMC ships.

Fonds consists of documents and memorabilia collected by several members of the Pullen family relating to their various naval careers.

L107
A newspaper clipping dated 1956 containing an article detailing the history of the Victoria Cross from the Crimean War to the present and a newspaper clipping from the back of a calendar describing SS Beaver off Fort Victoria in 1846.

L179
A book titled "The Pullen Records" consisting of photocopies of various records. The records consist generally of a number of historical records of HM Ships in the Arctic compiled by H.F. Pullen in 1954. Specifically included is the log book of T.C. Pullen, Royal Navy, from HMS Cambria and HMS North Star, extracts of T.C. Pullen's journals kept while master of HMS North Star in the 1850s, an extract from the admiralty board of inquiry where T.C. Pullen was a witness, a monthly meteorological report from September 1852 to April 1854, extracts of naval messages and correspondence, a map of the routes taken by W.J.S. Pullen from 1849 to 1851 in the Arctic, an account of the search for the Franklin expedition, and general notes of the life of Vice-Admiral W.J.S. Pullen.
(The catalogue card states that it is book 18 of 25).

L614
Programme for the 90th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication at St. Paul's Church, Esquimalt, 12 December 1956.

L716-L717
Commemorative book and programme for the launching day of the world's first atomic powered vessel, the submarine USS Nautilus, 21 January 1954.

L999
Log book kept by Commander William J.S. Pullen from the HMS Falcon in 1855 and HMS Cyclops dating from 1857 to 1860. Also, a newspaper clipping of the obituary of Vice-Admiral William J.S. Pullen, describing his accomplishments with the South Australia Company, in the Bay of Fundy, on an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, and commanding HMS North Star in Sir E. Belcher's Arctic expedition, among others. Includes a section titled "Remarks HM Steam Sloop Salem" describing angorages in the Baltic in 1855, a section titled “Journal of Proceedings HMS Steam Frigate Cyclops on Voyage to the Red Sea for the purpose of Sounding for the bed of electric cable” which consists of a narattive ending with ships about to be docked at Bombay in April 1860, and a section titled “A Few Remarks on the Chart of Bomany Harbour with no name as to its maker” .