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S/V Nonsuch Collection
006.001.0001 · Fonds · 1970

Fonds consists of a scrapbook containing photos, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings regarding the 5,200 mile, 14 month voyage from Montreal, of the ketch Nonsuch beginning in June 1970. There is an envelope glued to the inside back cover containing statistics, a gallery guide, a hand drawn chart, 3 postcards, and 12 additional photographs.

Schumacher Fonds
017.004.0001-0002 · Fonds

8 ship plans for the Friendship Sloop Monheghan and Friendship Sloop Princess, designed by Philip C. Bolger. And, 8 ship plans/bluprints for Friendship Sloop ships, designed by B.B. Crowninshield, naval architect.

Seaspan International Fonds
985.086.0001-0022, 986.039-986.040, 988.284.0001-0010 · Fonds · 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.
Seaspan International Limited
Slaght Fonds
L1725 · Fonds · 1904

Fonds consists of a book titled "Instructions relating to the Rocket Apparatus for Saving Life from Shipwreck", issued by the Board of Trade, London, 1904.

Slaght, Mr.
Stephen Hill Fonds
009.003.0001 · Fonds

Fonds consists of Graymarine Engines for Boats catalogues and an engine installation drawing.

T.B. Jellicoe Fonds
L1908 · Fonds

Fonds consists of documents describing the dimensions, etc. of M/V Wellington Kent ex HMCS North Bay and the M/V Galloway Kent ex HMCS North Bay.

Jellicoe, Captain T.B.
L2351 · Fonds · 1620-1625, 1958

Fonds consists of a book titled "A Treatise on Shipbuilding and a Treatise on Rigging Written About 1620-1625", edited by W. Salisbury and R.C. Anderson, published by the Society for Nautical Research, 1958.

The Society for Nautical Research
Thomas E. Appleton Fonds
013.013.0001-0003 · Fonds · 1968

Fonds consists of oversize plans of the Canadian Marine Service Badge and the colour code for Canadian Marine Service Badge for the Department of Transport and a book titled "Usque Ad Mare: A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services", by Thomas E. Appleton, published by the Department of Transport in 1968.

Appleton, Thomas E.
Turner Fonds
982.002.0001-0013 · Fonds · 1962-1964

Fonds consists of correspondence and documents relating to the professional life of Norman Turner, marine surveyor, dating from 1962 to 1964.

  1. Reports and Correspondence from Department of Transport, marine regulations branch, dating to 1962.
  2. Reports, correspondence, and certificates of markings from Department of Transport and reports and correspondence from National Revenue, Canada. Relating primarily to registries of shipping queries, dating to 1963.
  3. Surveyor’s reports, builder’s certificates, and certificates of survey from the Department of Transport.
  4. General correspondence with various contractors and businesses in the shipbuilding industry, dating to 1963.
  5. Correspondence, survey forms, and annual surveys from the Department of Transport, Ottawa, dating to 1964.
  6. Registrars of shipping from the department of Transport and correspondence from National Revenue, Canada, dating from 1964.
  7. General correspondence and survey forms from the department of Transport dating to 1964.
  8. General correspondence with various contractors and businesses in the shipbuilding industry, dating to 1964.
  9. Forms, correspondence, and surveyor’s reports dating to 1964.
  10. Blank survey formula forms from Norman Turner, marine surveyor and ships plans by Raymond H. Richards, naval architect & marine surveyor.
  11. Correspondence between Norman Turner and Mr. Jack H. Pert regarding measuring survey request, dated January 1964.
  12. Correspondence between Norman Turner and Yarrows Limited. And Victoria Machinery Depot Co., Limited and ships plans from Yarrows Limited, dating to 1962.
  13. Correspondence relating to measuring surveys for the British American Oil Company Limited and architectural plans for mooring float for B.A. Oil and Royal Victoria Yachting Club.
Turner, Norman
Vipond Fonds
L2333 · Fonds

Fonds consists of a photocopy and a transparency copy of the profile after section elevation of SS Princess Alice.