Fonds consists of a manual for the installation, running, and maintenance of the Scott-Paine, air/sea rescue launch, 1941.

Fonds consists of documents related to the operation of the Sooke Radio Station including a department of Transport, Telecommunications and Electronics Branch instruction manual for marine communications control systems.

Also includes a June 1987 Victoria Coast Guard Radio Station Information Manual Edition III, certificates and background information related to Canadian Coast Guard, Sooke Coast Guard Radio Station, and five technical plans.

Fonds consists of letters discussing associated lifeboat plans between board of steamship inspector, Department of Marine and Fisheries and Wallace Shipyards Limited. Also includes some specifications sheets, dating from 1916 to 1924.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook of the german ship M/V Weser. Each page is a fold-out plan or chart and the book is entirely in German.

Fonds consists of an examiner's certificate of qualification stating that William Thomas Dunlin is qualified to discharge the duties of examiner in navigation and seamanship, dated 23 April 1894.

Also includes a passenger list for RMS Tahiti dated 10 October 1913 including route chart, pages 34 and 35 from the San Francisco Chronicle dated 16 January 1915, a package of participant permits (all permits have been torn out) from the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco 1915 signed by J. Millford with an envelope, and a ticket for the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, 1935.

Fonds consists of a package of ship charts and drawing material dating to 1960. They are wrapped in plastic, never opened.