Box 1: Personal log books covering voyages as an apprentice on the LOCH VENNACHAR and LOCH TORRIDON, 1904-1905. Mounted photographs relating to the LOCH VENNACHAR wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905. An account of his fall from the rigging of the LOCH TORRIDON and recuperation at Melbourne, 1905. Personal log books covering voyages of the KNUTSFORD, KAIPARA and ROTORUA, 1910-1914. Records of accounts as a Channel Pilot for the London District of Trinity House Pilotage Service, 1933-1942. Box 2: Two albums of photographs of scenes on board ships and foreign locations, portraits of crew and passengers, friends and family, 1903-1915. Boxes 3, 4 and 5: Booklets and notebooks on tides and alterations to buoys and lights in the Thames Estuary, 1919-1939. Cargo stowage plans for the KNUTSFORD. Newspaper cuttings relating to his career at sea. Printed books on seamanship, mechanics, Board of Trade examinations, ship construction, signalling, azimuth and nautical tables, compass deviation, English Channel pilotage, and Port of London bye-laws. Also a copy of 'Reminiscences of My Life' by R.H. Holland, Thames Pilot, Gravesend. Box 6: Printed books on navigation, Admiralty charts, pilotage, the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War, bye laws of the Corporation of Trinity House, New Zealand Shipping Company regulations, and the history of North Atlantic steam navigation. Also a folded chart of the Thames Estuary published by Stanford, London, and a bundle of notes forming a pocket guide to beacons, buoys, lights, shoals, tides, sands, channels, etc. in the Thames estuary and nearby parts of the English Channel and North Sea.

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Administrative / biographical background
Andrews was born at Gravesend and first went to sea as an apprentice on the Glasgow Shipping Co sailing vessels LOCH VENNACHAR, LOCH TORRIDON and LOCH CARRON in 1903-1907. He was lucky to have transferred from the LOCH VENNACHAR before this vessel went missing with all hands off Australia in September 1905. Andrews was an officer on the New Zealand Shipping Co vessels KAIPARA and ROTORUA in 1910-1914 and during this period qualified as master (certificate number 040702). After gaining sufficient coasting experience he joined Trinity House and was a pilot in the London District for the remainder of his life.