Loose sheets with photocopies of the following:
(1) Journal kept by Edmund Aikman as an apprentice on the steel three-masted ship GLENDOON (1894), between 23 June 1899 and 4 June 1900, with a list of the ship’s company on an additional sheet.
(3) Pages from the log of the screw steamer CLAVERDON (1899) on a voyage from Hamburg to San Francisco, 24 August 1902 to 31 August 1902. Also pages from the log of the same vessel on a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney, 1 January 1903 to 5 January 1903.
(4) Four pages from the journal of Edmund Aikman, second mate on the CLAVERDON, 25 August 1902 to 1 September 1902, with his description of a hurricane.
(5) Page from the journal of Edmund Aikman, with his description of a waterspout, dated 17 December.
(6) Typescript account of the ship CLAVERDON in heavy weather in August 1902, as experienced by Edmund Aikman, written by his son Edmund F. Aikman and published in the ‘Journal of The Honourable Company of Master Mariners’, April 1961.