Material relating to the River Thames estuary and Port of London Authority:

Port of London Authority booklet listing fares chargeable by licensed watermen between the landward limit of the Port of London at Teddington and Lower Hope Point, below Gravesend, printed by McCorquodale & Co. Ltd., London, 1920.

Discharge certificates of Gilbert Arthur Drury (1908-1996) as a deck boy on the General Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. vessels CORNCRAKE (1910) and MEREL (1925), 1925-1926; and as a mate employed on W.H.J. Alexander Ltd. tugs and William C. Rowbotham coastal tankers, 1940-1947.

Sheet with typescript instructions for tug crews handling the float-out, towage, positioning and grounding of S. Tower, Fort No. 5., one of the naval forts erected in the River Thames estuary, circa 1942.

Three printed plans from the offices of Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and G.A. Maunsell relating to the above operations:
Layout of Camels with Fort
Fort No. 5, Position of Tugs as S. Tower Leaves Building Berth
Fort No. 5, Mooring up of S. Tower at Grounding Site

Typescript message to be read to ships’ companies ‘on the eve of great events’, from Admiral of the Fleet Sir John C. Tovey, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, dated 21 May 1944.