Personal diaries and sketch book of Lieutenant William Collingwood Royal Indian Navy (R.I.N.) surveyor, including photographs and papers concerning the Scott Memorial and Snook's Sword. Most of the diairies are bound in red morocco and include pencil and pen sketches, with some watercolours. They cover Collingwood's career from 1849 to 1857. The Scott Memorial material comprises two photographic blocks and paperwork from the mid 1960's. Also contains a photograph block of Snook's sword.

Administrative / biographical background
Lieutenant William Collingwood (1830-1887), a distant cousin of Admiral Collingwood, was a civil engineer in the Royal Indian Navy (R.I.N.). His work included much valuable work in Iraq; this included a survey of the Shatt-ul-Arab river, Bussorah [Basra] and the large-scale mapping of Baghdad. Collingwood served on The AUCKLAND in 1849, then on NITROCIS 1850-1852, EUPHRATES in 1853 and then QUEEN OF THE NORTH 1856-1857. He became Surveyor of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in 1863. The photographic blocks were made for reproduction in the Royal Indian Navy Association’s 1964 journal.