The papers include accounts, memoranda and sailing orders for 1858 to 1861, 1863 to 1865 and 1878; a notebook recording the ships in which Pollard served as a junior officer; a watch bill, 1860 to 1861; a book of technical details on the Rupert and the Defence and newspaper cuttings. 1858 to 1878. See item level records for further details.

Administrative / biographical background
Pollard entered the Navy in 1846 and served in the Black Sea from 1854 to 1855, when he became a lieutenant. He was present at the capture of Canton in 1857 and in the later operations in the north of China, including the attack on the Peiho forts, 1859, when he commanded the Staunch; in the next year he was in the Gulf of Pechili and was at the capture of Tientsin. He was promoted to commander into the Simoom in 1861 and in 1863 was appointed to the Royalist on the North American Station where, during 1864, he was engaged in the suppression of slaving off the south coast of Cuba. He was promoted to captain in 1868. From 1878 to 1881 be was in the Mediterranean in command of the Rupert and was then in the Defence, coast guard service, between 1882 and 1884. He retired with the rank of rear-admiral in 1855