File contains correspondence with Bill from Shipowners Assurance Management Ltd, A & C Black Ltd, ; a photocopy of "Big battles with the Sea: Twenty-Seven Days in Open Boats" by H. J. Shepstone; pages from "Our Sure Shield! About the Day's Work in the Navy" by J. S. Margerison; typed drafts of "The other boat" and "San Rafael's last trip round Cape Horn"; photocopies of drafts of "Ol'd Grandpa" and "The other boat"; a bibliography and research material for a talk given to the Antiquarian Society called "Aids to Navigation"; a typed draft of a talk for the Antiquarians called "Survival in the Roaring Forties" which is about the San Rafael; and a photocopy of "Saga of the 'San Rafael.'"
File consists of genealogical notes on the Rettie family of Truro, Nova Scotia, with a particular focus on Captain Alexander Rose Rettie and the wreck of his vessel "Forest Chief." Also included are a family tree, photocopies of research correspondence, and historical newspaper accounts.
File contains manuscripts by Robert Lester Dewis (1950, 1953); Alphonse Deveau (1968); George S. Bryan (undated); and Irving Deale's manuscript titled "A personal account of an interesting story, or a funny thing happened on the way to an antique shop " (1973).
File contains a booklet titled "The Mary Celeste : The odyssey of an abandoned ship" published by The Atlantic Companies in 1942. File also contains an undated poster regarding the Mary Celeste from Walter De Wolfe's Craft Shop.
File includes photographs of Joshua Dewis at Refugee Cove; a 1967 Mary Celeste stamp; Captain Robert W. McLellan's gravestone; Joshua Dewis' gravestone; Sarah Briggs' harmonium; and Mary Celeste plaque at Spencer's Island.
File includes photographs of artwork of the Mary Celeste by Rudolph Ruzicka, Leslie Victor Smith, and John Worsley; a painting of the Amazon ship; and models of the Mary Celeste held at the Atlantic Companies, Mariners Museum, and Mystic Museum.
File a letter Irving Deale wrote to the Canadian Department of Transportation regarding the Mary Celeste. File also includes Deale's notes in response to the letter.
Collection contains correspondence related to Mary Celeste research in 1974, between Irving Deale and Dave Taylor, Gilbert Collicott, Marjorie Robb, Francis Ruzicka, Thomas Raddall, Caroline Jarvis, John Lochhead, Michael Joseph, James How, R. Baden Powell, Howard Gottlieb, Milton Gustafson, Theresa Cederholm, Tatiana Ruzicka, Sandra Hopkins, Stanley Spicer, Philip C.F. Smith, among others.
File contains copies of the Amazon bill of lading (1862); Windsor Insurance Company policy for Albert Dewis (1865); Attorney General's Office petition regarding Amazon (1867); the Amazon account of crew changes (1866); the Amazon shipping certificate (1868); information from Lloyd's List (1872); Gibraltar letter from Solly Flood (1873); a Gibraltar report from Dr. J. Patron (1873); shipping records for Amazon (1874; 1887; 1889) and Mary Celeste (1873-1877) with abbreviations; and a charted course for Mary Celeste (undated).
File includes master's deductions, master's expense accounts, receipts, master's cash accounts, correspondence, accident and damage reports, tobacco accounts, and personal injury and sickness reports.
File includes medical reports, personal injury and sickness reports, accident and damage reports, tobacco accounts, accounts of wages, and master's expense accounts.
File includes overtime accounts, tobacco accounts, goods correspondence, and damaged goods reports for voyage no.4 from Halifax to the West Indies of the Canadian Signaller.
File includes orders of deportation, tobacco accounts, personal injury and sickness reports, receipts, coal reports, damage reports, master's personal expenses, and overtime accounts.
File includes master's expense accounts, receipts, damage reports, collision reports, tobacco accounts, accounts of wages, correspondence regarding accounts, and personal injury and sickness reports.
File includes portage bill from Montreal to Halifax; crew list from Montreal to Liverpool; abstracts from deck logs from Montreal to Liverpool, Swansea to Portland, Portland to Antwerp, and Antwerp to St. John; and the master's cash account for voyage no. 9 of the Canadian Mariner
File includes portage bills for voyage no.1 from Port Wager and from Montreal to London; portage bill for return voyage no.1 from London to Montreal; and master's cash account and crew list for voyage no.1 of the Canadian Trapper.
