Bundle 1 (all unfit for production): Album of newspaper cuttings covering the Franco-Prussian War, 1870. Logbooks kept by Lockyer as midshipman on HMS ACHILLES, HMS HEROINE, HMS GARNET and HMS VOLAGE, 1881-1886 (2 volumes). Book of survey work kept while serving on HMS BULWARK and HMS IRRESISTIBLE in the Mediterranean, 1902-1904.

Bundle 2 (all unfit for production): Kerigan's Navigational Tables Volumes I and II. Leather bound book with a manuscript list of Royal Navy vessels. Notebook with a diary of the proceedings of HMS IMPLACABLE, 1915-1916.

Bundle 3 (all unfit for production): Printed seamanship manuals and coasting tables, 1898-1932. Two printing blocks for the illustrations used in Lockyer's book on Gallipoli. Box containing a shellcase and four small models of warships including HMS ARETHUSA and HMS IRON DUKE.

Box 1 (all unfit for production): Orders and reports relating to HMS IMPLACABLE at the Gallipoli landings (3 files) and a relief map of the Gallipoli peninsular, 1915.

Box 2: Orders and reports relating to HMS IMPLACABLE, forcing of the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli landings, 1915 (4 envelopes). Copies of Lockyer's book 'The Battle of the Beaches and The Proceedings of H.M.S. Implacable', 1936. Printed copies of a letter to Lockyer from the 2nd Royal Fusilers, 1916. Also a copy of 'The Dardanelles: An Epic Told in Pictures', published by The Alfieri Picture Service, London.

Box 3: Printed history of the ship's bell from HMS IMPLACABLE, circa 1919. Envelope of mounted photographs and newspaper cuttings, including images of the White Star Line passenger liner GOTHIC on fire at Plymouth in 1906, the Naval Review at Spithead in 1902, and HMS IMPLACABLE (ex DUGUAY-TROUIN) in 1926. Two envelopes of small photographs showing warships, fleet reviews at Spithead, early aircraft and family, some taken by his brother W.J.S. Lockyer. Certificate for the decoration Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy, conferred on Lockyer in 1916. Facsimilie of Lord Nelson's last letter, with envelope and portrait print. Mounted photograph and lines of verse relating to the snagging of a buoy by HMS BULWARK at Malta, 1905.

Box 4: Issue of the 'United Service Gazette' from 14 June 1906 featuring an article on Lockyer (3 copies). Eleven issues of 'The War Illustrated' magazine from the period June 1943 to October 1945. Souvenir programme for the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead, 20 May 1937, published and printed by Gale & Polden Ltd. Printed booklet of songs sung by the minstrel troupe of HMS CORDELIA at St John's, Newfoundland, 1895-1898 (3 copies). Handbook of instructions for the reflecting glow lamp for night signalling, invented and designed by Lockyer, 1902. Additional letters, newspaper cuttings, photographs and ephemera, including a pocket diary from 1915 and the order of service for the unveiling of a memorial to the men of the 29th Division who fell during the Gallipoli Campaign, at Holy Trinity Church, Eltham, London, 25 April 1917. Also some correspondence relating to his son in the period 1950-1970, including a letter to officers of the Royal Navy from Lord Mountbatten, First Sea Lord, sent before he left the Admiralty, 1959.

Box 5: Small ink drawings of views along the Chinde and Zambesi rivers on the east coast of Africa made by Lockyer while serving on HMS STORK, 1888-1891. Folded charts of the Dardanelles, Cape Helles, Palestine, Egypt and Syria, and El Ferdan on the Suez Canal, 1907-1916. Including drawings for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, showing views of the Gallipoli Peninsular, details of enemy positions and covering ships, 1915. Also an annotated map of the Oxford part of the River Thames from Northmoor to Day's Lock.

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Administrative / biographical background
Lockyer was the third son of the scientist and astronomer Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920). He was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School in London, then the Royal Naval Academy at Gosport. He entered the Navy as a cadet in 1879 and was a midshipman on the broadside ironclad HMS ACHILLES during the Egyptian War in 1882. After promotion to lieutenant he served on HMS STORK on the east coast of Africa, HMS FEARLESS in the Mediterranean, and HMS CORDELIA off Newfoundland, in each case often engaged in survey work. He was on HMS STORK in 1889 when she was the first warship to pass through the Chinde mouth of the Zambesi river. During the period 1899-1902 Lockyer served as navigating officer on the battleships HMS HOOD and HMS IRRESISTIBLE. He again gained distinction in survey work, including charts of the English Channel, and Mudros and Lemnos in Greece. He also experimented with night signalling apparatus and was appointed to the Fleet Reserve at Chatham to develop his own invention. After promotion to the rank of commander in 1902, he served as navigating officer on the battleship HMS BULWARK on the Mediterranean station. He then held posts at Devonport Dockyard including King's Harbour-Master for Plymouth Sound. Lockyer was promoted to the rank of captain in 1908. He gained particular renown while in command of the battleship HMS IMPLACABLE during the forcing of the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli landings. His crew successfully landed and supported with shellfire the 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers at X Beach on Cape Helles. Following these events he was made CB and Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. He later wrote a short book about the role of HMS IMPLACABLE at Gallipoli, with proceedings of the sale to go to war charities. He died at Langport in Somerset in 1941. His only son, also named Hughes Campbell Lockyer, entered the Navy as a paymaster cadet on the training ship HMS TEMERAIRE in 1919. He was a paymaster lieutenant serving on the cruiser HMS CARDIFF at the time of his marriage at Simonstown, South Africa, in 1932.