Night Order Book, HMS EMERALD on a voyage from Bombay [Mumbai] to Basrah (Baghdad), 1928.

Correspondence to and from Vaughan, mainly relating to the Society of Nautical Research, 1925-1951 (2 folders).

Manuscript of Memoirs encompassing naval career, 1911-1945 (5 folders).

Reports submitted to Flag Officer, Narvik, the Earl of Cork and Orrery, 1940. These concern the naval and military operations of Allied forces in Norway and especially Narvik, April - June 1940 and include some photographs (2 folders).

Also some papers of H S Vaughan (father of HRH Vaughan):

Research Notebook, frequently in French, 1912.
Notes concerning Portuguese sailing and fishing vessels.
Copy of the 'London Gazette', March 1745.
Volume of allowances, statistics and provisions allowed to Seamen, c.1749.

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Administrative / biographical background
Herbert Stanley Vaughan (d.1933) was Victualling Store Officer at Hong Kong, Malta and Plymouth between 1899 and 1911, and Superintendent of Victualling at Gibraltar, Malta and Plymouth between 1914 and 1923. An enthuiastic historian, he was an active founding member of the Society for Nautical Research. His son, Captain Herbert Reginald Henry Vaughan (d.1978) served in the Royal Navy between 1911 and 1945. He served aboard H.M.S. TRIAD in the Persian Gulf between 1928 and 1930, and during the Second World War took part, as Secretary to Admiral Lord Cork, in the attack in 1940 on Narvik.