Letters, certificates, examination papers, sports programmes and newspaper cuttings relating to Laurence Richard Oliphant as a candidate for a cadetship in the Royal Navy and his subsequent training on HMS BRITANNIA at Dartmouth, 1891-1893. Including three family letters, programmes for athletic sports and assault-at-arms events, and order of service for confirmation.

There are annotated copies of printed examination papers for BRITANNIA cadets in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, practical navigation, theoretical navigation and nautical astronomy, chart drawing, instruments and observations, history and geography, French, mechanism, steam and steam machinery, science and drawing, 1891-1893. Also examination papers for junior officers afloat in arithmetric and algebra, geometry, trigonometry, theoretical and practical navigation, chart drawing, mechanics and hydrostatics, and French, 1893-1894.