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Fonds 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.

Fonds consists of the 17 April 1852 issue of 'The Illustrated London News" newspaper/magazine.

Fonds consists of Log books of SS Oriana dating from 1960 to 1965, an SS Oriana emergency station bill, maps, and a blank daily issue book of spirit rations.

Also includes a souvenir book filled with signatures from Captain H.A. Hayns of the Eagle Oil & Shipping Company Limited, given as a token of respect and esteem on the retirement of an unnamed person from the position of Marine Superintendent, dated 31 December 1934.

Fonds consists of photocopies of articles about NOIC Utah, United States Navy, and the role of the Steamer Exodus (formerly SS President Warfield) in the founding of Israel after WWII, as well as photographs of a high level meeting aboard HM and US vessels.

Fonds consists of a passenger lists for Union Steamship Company of New Zealand's Royal Mail Line Canadian-Australasian voyage via Vancouver for RMS Aorangi sailing from Vancouver 21 August 1929 and RMS Niagra sailing from Sydney and Auckland September 1930. Each pamphlet includes a map.

Fonds consists of a stamp with an image of a steamship and the words: "Canada's Navy If Canada is to have a Navy St. John, N.B. is the Place to Build the Ships".

Fonds consists of certificates of discharge for O.G. Young, dating from 1886 to 1898.

Fonds consists of photographs of the funeral of Lieutenant N.J. Ogden and Lieutenant P.S. Clark who were killed in 1963 while flying on a training exercise. They were buried in North Vancouver.

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.

Fonds consists of a new testament apparently salvaged from the 1914 wreck of RMS Empress of Ireland.