985.086.0001-0022, 986.039-986.040, 988.284.0001-0010
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collection
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1922-1979
Fonds consists of
985.086
- Ship plans, correspondence, Lloyd’s register of shipping load, shipping, and surveyor’s certificates related to Island Tug & Barge vessels M/V Comet, M/V Island Forester and M/V Island Cedar, as well as a cost of building report and assorted certificates for SS Conchita.
- Correspondence, reports, and certificates related to William Beardmore & Company Limited, Victoria Machinery Depot Company Limited, Yarrows Limited, and the Department of Marine and Fisheries dating from 1922 to 1956 and 1979,
- Certificates for ship’s lanterns from the Netherlands Meteorological institute, in Dutch, dated 1924, and certificates of tonnage from the United States of Venezuela.
986.039
- Time sheets dating from August 1947 to December 1956,
- Motor Princess valve cage charts dated 1946 to 1948 (have been ripped in half and taped back together)
-Blank envelopes and forms from Island Tug & Barge,
-Booklet of engineering tables and plans titled "I.T.-4.", - 1962 marine digest,
- Salvage agreement,
- Loading specifications for log barges.
986.040
- Quotation work sheets in alphabetical order which had been stored in a card catalogue style. Consists only of work sheets from 'A' to 'Mc',
- 10 miscellaneous blueprints.
988.284
- Fonds consists of documents, photographs, and blueprints relating to Seaspan engineering , TSS Conchita, and TSS Carlota. The documents include 3 copies of the stability investigation report from the Capsizing of Seaspan 921, two copies of a technical investigation and analysis report on the probable causes of capsize on 19 July 1974 of Seaspan 921, and statistical stability calculations from the capsizing,
- loading scale sheets, calibration scales, transcript of register, load line certificate, and general correspondence dating from the 1960s to the 1980s.