Archives Catalogue

MS-8-Ref
Collection
[ca. 1880]-[ca. 1970]

The Shipping Reference Collection incorporates virtually all miscellanous shipping records and reference material that were accessioned as part of "MS-8-Ref." A large portion of the collection consists of reference files on various vessels and shipping lines. A card-catalogue index known as "Master and Mates" provides references to microfilmed vessel papers, trade records, registers, and other related materials. The collection also includes photographs, slides, and published materials such as the Lloyd's Register of Ships.

The collection contains four series:

Microfilm

Shipping Line reference files

Vessel reference files

Published materials

Armour, Charles

Papers of the SS Corfu Island

MS-4-231, SF Box 21, Folder 19
File
1953-1962

File contains papers of the SS Corfu Island, including a survey of the vessel from March 4, 1953, a list of crew members from July 11, 1957 to May 14, 1960, and miscellaneous papers from 1956, 1961, and 1962.

SS Corfu Island.

Shipping registers and research cards of Trevor Bebb

MS-4-177.2013-053
Collection
[19--]-[ca. 2013]

The accession contains index cards originally stored in 10 small plastic boxes and 1 long cardboard box. The cards were created by Trevor Bebb and contain entries from various shipping registers. The cards describe vessels, captains, and sailors. The accession also contains two oversized ledgers from the nineteenth century and several manuscript sheets of poetry. One plastic box was empty when it entered the archives.

Bebb, James Trevor

Wreck of the S.S. Atlantic : evidence given at the trial, Halifax, April 5-8, 1873

MS-2-84, SF Box 88, Folder 1
Item
April 5-8, 1873

Item is an account of evidence given at the trial of the wreck of S.S. Atlantic. The trial took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia from April 5-8, 1873. Evidence was given by the members of the crew.

Research material related to shipwrecks

MS-2-82, Box 43, Folder 57
File
[1927?]

Part of Archibald MacMechan fonds

This file consists of illustrations, correspondence and a map.

Photograph of five dead oiled seabirds along the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 9
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of oiled juvenile guillemots after treatment along the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 8
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster, showing oiled juvenile Black Guillemots housed in a box after cleaning treatment.

Photograph of oil-covered tidal pools along the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 7
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of oil-covered rocks along the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 6
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of oil-covered rocks along the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 5
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of oil-covered kelp on the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 4
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of two unidentified people examining oil-covered rocks on the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 3
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of oil-covered kelp on the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 2
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photograph of four unidentified people spraying oil-covered rocks on the Brittany coast after the Amoco Cadiz spill

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9, Item 1
Item
1978

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken in 1978 by J. Vandermeulen after the Amoco Cadiz disaster.

Photographs of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill, off Brittany

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 9
File
[1978]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 9 photographs taken by J. Vandermeulen (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1978. Photographs show clean-up efforts of the oil spill after the Amoco Cadiz super-tanker ran aground off the Brittany coast (near Portsall, France) on March 16, 1978.

Photograph of oil covered rocks with size reference, SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 6
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil covered rocks, SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 5
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil covered rocks, SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 4
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of an unidentified person walking along oil-soaked coastline after SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 3
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil pooling along coastline from SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 2
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photograph of oil covered rocks, SS Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8, Item 1
Item
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

Photographs of the Arrow oil spill, Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia

MS-2-789, Box 15, Folder 8
File
[1970]

Part of Bill Freedman fonds

File contains 6 photographs taken by Roger Belanger (and collected by Bill Freedman), likely in 1970. Photographs show clean-up efforts after the oil spill after the SS Arrow ran aground during a gale, in Chedabucto Bay, February 4, 1970.

Account of the wreck of the schooner Annie B. Anderson

MS-2-600, SF Box 63, Folder 15
File
1920

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' notes on shipwrecks

MS-2-600, SF Box 56, Folder 13
File
[19--]

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

File also contains a map with annotations possibly written by Ronald Justin Inness.

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding the Cunard Steamship Co.

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 24
File
[19--] - 1957

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding shipwrecks

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 23
File
[19--] - [ca. 1968]

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding the Bounty

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 22
File
1960

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding the schooner Bluenose

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 21
File
1968

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding maritime disasters

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 20
File
[ca. 1968]

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding the American merchant brigantine Mary Celeste

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 19
File
[19--] - [ca. 1968]

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness' clippings regarding ships & shipping companies

MS-2-600, Box 1, Folder 18
File
[19--] - [ca. 1968]

Part of Ronald Justin Inness fonds

Ronald Justin Inness fonds

MS-2-600
Fonds
[19--]

Fonds consists of materials collected by Ronald Justin Inness about ships and shipping companies, including pamphlets, manuscripts, clippings, and correspondence. Fonds also contains manuscripts written by Ronald Justin Inness about the Innes' genealogy.

Inness, Ronald Justin

Articles about the Mary Celeste transcribed and annotated by Irving Deale

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 9
File
1924-1974

Part of Irving Deale collection

File contains transcriptions of articles and book chapters, and a translation.

Amazon shipping certificate

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 8, Item 7
Item
1861 and 1868

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item is a certificate of registry for the Brigantine Amazon on June 10, 1861, at the port of Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.

Copy of petition of Alexander McBain to lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 8, Item 6
Item
1867

Part of Irving Deale collection

The item consists of handwritten and typed correspondence regarding Alexander McBain's petition to the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, written on October 14, 1867.

Copy of reply by attorney general to petition of Alexander McBain

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 8, Item 5
Item
1867

Part of Irving Deale collection

The item consists of handwritten and typed correspondence from the attorney general regarding Alexander McBain's petition, written on October 15, 1867.

Copies of historic documents regarding the Mary Celeste

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 8, Items 1 - 13
File
1862-1889

Part of Irving Deale collection

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).

Research correspondence regarding Mary Celeste

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1973

Part of Irving Deale collection

Letter from Irving Deale to the Canadian Department of Transportation

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1969

Part of Irving Deale collection

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.

Photographs relating to Mary Celeste

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[18--] - [19--]

Part of Irving Deale collection

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.

The Mary Celeste : The odyssey of an abandoned ship

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
[ca.1942]

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item is a booklet titled "The Mary Celeste: The odyssey of an abandoned ship," published by The Atlantic Companies in 1942.

Undated poster regarding the Mary Celeste

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
[19--?]

Part of Irving Deale collection

Item is an undated poster regarding the Mary Celeste from Walter De Wolfe's Craft Shop.

The Mary Celeste : the odyssey of an abandoned ship

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 11, Items 1 and 2
File
[19--]

Part of Irving Deale collection

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.

Manuscripts about the Mary Celeste

MS-2-518, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1950-1973

Part of Irving Deale collection

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).

Irving Deale collection

MS-2-518
Collection
1862 - 1974

Collection consists of documents, photographs, correspondence and manuscripts relating to Irving Deale's research on the Mary Celeste.

Deale, Irving Thomas

Photograph of a dory departing the Erie at Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 5
Item
1912

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph taken in 1912 showing a dory rowing ashore after departing the steam schooner Erie, which was stranded on the South Side of Sable Island in August 1912.

Photograph of the bow of the wrecked Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 4
Item
1918

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a black-and-white photograph of the bow of the grounded Skidby, taken in 1918 by Richard Orme Allen.

Photograph of the hulk of the Skidby aground on Sable Island

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 3
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph, likely taken around 1917, of the hulk of the British steam schooner Skidby, which ran aground off West Light, Sable Island, in 1905.

Photograph of the 1915 wreck of the Silver Wings

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 2
Item
1915

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a photograph of a shipwreck off the coast of Sable Island, likely the British steam schooner Silver Wings, lost in August 1915.

Photograph of the 1905 wreck of the Skidby

MS-2-474, PB Box 3, Folder 33, Item 1
Item
[1917?]

Part of Richard Orme Allen fonds

Item consists of a copy of a photograph of the wreck of the Skidby, originally taken in 1905, initially grounded 1.5 miles SE of West Light, Sable Island.

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