Night Order book, RIEBEECK CASTLE and MV CLAN MACINNES, Southampton to Cape Town, 31 January 1971- 6 May 1972 (Birkenhead).

Personal voyage log kept by NE Upham, showing sailing and weather statistics, 7 June 1958- 6 May 1972.

Folder of ship's correspondence including receipts for repairs, correspondence with various ports and authorities, extracts of crew lists and log books, financial reports and reports cases of ill discipline among the crew. Also Upham's letters of appoinment to command the CONSTANCE BOWATER and ROTHERWICK CASTLE.

Folder of plans showing distribution of cargoes in the ships' hold for various voyages of the ROTHERWICK CASTLE and PENDENNIS CASTLE, 1969-1972.

Folder of plans detailing stability arrangements on PENDENNIS CASTLE and CARPENTARIA.

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Administrative / biographical background
Upham was born at Taunton in Somerset in 1927. After attending Prior Park school, Bath, he began his seafaring career as a cadet on the training ship WORCESTER at Greenhithe. He started training as a deck officer with the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd in 1944 and gained qualification as master mariner (certificate numbers 57051, 63338 and 72577). In the period 1955-1972 he was engaged on vessels operated by the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co Ltd, Bowater Steamship Co Ltd and also the King Line, frequently on voyages to South Africa or the USA. After a period as Port Superintendent at Southampton, Upham left the merchant service and subsequently became first a Research Assistant, 1973, and then Assistant Keeper in the Department of Ships at the NMM between 1975 and 1982 before retiring to Somerset where he became parish clerk of Nynehead. He was also a Younger Brother of Trinity House. He died at home at Taunton on 2 July 2016.