Items relating to Walter Herman Albert Straaten (1892-1975), engineer in the Merchant Navy:

Discharge certificates, 1913-1920
Various testimonials and certificates, including details of his employment on cablelaying vessels belonging to Siemens Brothers & Co. Ltd. and GPO, 1914 - 191942
Continuous Certificate of Discharge booklet, 1916-1940
Authority to Wear War Medals for the Mercantile Marine following the issue of medals in 1919 and 1921
Seamen’s National Insurance Society membership card, 1923
Certificate of Competency as Second Class Engineer, issued 1928 (number 67116)
National Registration Identity Card, 1943
Printed cards with information on the British and American Bar and the Sailors’ Club in Marseille
Printed circular diagram for finding time differences at sea, working from noon at Greenwich (cut from a journal)
Printed book ‘The Ship Captain’s Medical Guide’, edited by Dr Charles Burland, published by HMSO and issued by the Board of Trade (reprinted 1921 edition)
New Testament (Active Service Testament 1916)
Printed poem by John Simpson in memory of the loss of the TITANIC in 1912, sent to Straaten at the Trinity House workshops at Blackwall, 1915
Walter H.A. Straaten stamping block

Items relating to his nephew Julian Justin Merrick Stratton (1925-2006), cadet and apprentice:

Navigation notebook used at the Nautical College at Pangbourne and while an apprentice with the New Zealand Shipping Co. Ltd., circa 1940-1943
Printed book ‘A Complete Set of Nautical Tables, with Explanations of Their Use’ by J.W. Norie, printed by Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd., London, 1934