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29 Archival description results for Maritime Disasters

SS Chak Sang Collection
993.037.0001 · Fonds · 1942, 1949

Fonds consists of photographs of the damage caused to SS Chak Sang by a Japanese Submarine in 1942 and a 1949 inquiry into the explosion.

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
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Seaspan International Limited
R.H. Roy Fonds
L3428 · 1961, 1968

Fonds consists of a series of letters between Lieutenant Governor Major-General G.R. Pearkes, Assistant Vice President of the Connecticut National Bank David W.P. Jewitt, and the Provincial Librarian and Archivist of British Columbia, dating to 1961.Read more

Roy, R.H.
Reuben Hamilton Fonds
L500 · Fonds · 1917

Fonds consists of a single telegram sent from Reuben Hamilton from HMCS Niobe in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Mrs. M.W. Hamilton in East Vancouver dated 9 December 1917 (three days after the Halifax explosion). Telegram reads: "Escaped uninjured".

Hamilton, Reuben
Percy Swatnam Fonds
L2442-L2446 · Fonds · 1931-[ca.1960s]

Fonds consists of:

L2442
Programme from a concert given by crew of HMCS Sheene in honour of East Coast Ships at Bermuda, spring 1935.

L2443
Collection of poems titled "Destroyer Ditties 1939" written and/or collected by crew of HMCS Saguenay, spring 1939.Read more

Swatnam, Percy
P79.7, L110, L481, L518, L559, L677, L685, L765, L786, L806, L829, P853, L900, L907, L910, L1152, L1222, L1224, L1225, L1226, L1241, L1252, L1261, L1284, L1347, L1350, L2383-2387, L3293, L3318, P3467, L3634, P3836, L4057, L4145, 982.014, 983.001.0031, 983.050, 984.024.0005-0010, 984.052, 984.055, 985.068, P986.011, 987.038, 989.307, 990.062, 993.034, 998.087, 998.166, 998.168-998.169, 999.113, 019.R.0011-0014, 019.R.0032 · Fonds · 1918-1987

Fonds consists of assorted documents and photographs relating to the Royal Canadian Navy donated by unknown donors between 1918 and 1987.

P79.7:
Form titled: "Part II Preparation for Battle (Torpedo)" for HMC ships, not filled out. Dated December 1920.

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Royal Canadian Navy
Olive James Fonds
L4506 · Fonds · 1914

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

Logan & Holliday Fonds
018.001.0001-0003 · Fonds · 1906-1953

Fonds consists of documents relating to the careers of David Logan (donor's great grandfather) and Daniel Holliday (donor's grandfather) who both worked for the Canadian Government Telegraph and Telephone Service, and to the history of the the West coastRead more

Logan, David
L.J. Watson Fonds
L439 · Fonds · 1917-1929

Fonds consists of a handwritten letter from Mr. Porteous to Mr. L.J. Watson dated 13 October 1929 describing the enclosed documents, a copy of a naval message regarding the voyage of HMCS Shearwater, the typed newspaper report of the account of PettyRead more

Watson, L.J.
James G. Arcus
L3635 · Fonds · 1918, 1948

Fonds consists of a clipping and a photocopy of an article by James G. Arcus, published in B.C. Digest, April 1948 regarding the sinking of the Princess Sophia, 26 October 1918.

Arcus, James G.