Uncatalogued: Andrews, Robert, Master Mariner and Trinity House Pilot, 1888-1942.

Box 1: Personal log books covering voyages as an apprentice on the LOCH VENNACHAR and LOCH TORRIDON, 1904-1905. Mounted photographs relating to the LOCH VENNACHAR wrecked off Kangaroo Island in 1905. An account of his fall from the rigging of the LOCH TORRIDON and recuperation at Melbourne, 1905. Personal log books covering voyages of the KNUTSFORD, KAIPARA and ROTORUA, 1910-1914. Records of accounts as a Channel Pilot for the London District of Trinity House Pilotage Service, 1933-1942. Box 2: Two albums of photographs of scenes on board ships and foreign locations, portraits of crew and passengers, friends and family, 1903-1915. Boxes 3, 4 and 5: Booklets and notebooks on tides and alterations to buoys and lights in the Thames Estuary, 1919-1939. Cargo stowage plans for the KNUTSFORD. Newspaper cuttings relating to his career at sea. Printed books on seamanship, mechanics, Board of Trade examinations, ship construction, signalling, azimuth and nautical tables, compass deviation, English Channel pilotage, and Port of London bye-laws. Also a copy of 'Reminiscences of My Life' by R.H. Holland, Thames Pilot, Gravesend. Box 6: Printed books on navigation, Admiralty charts, pilotage, the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War, bye laws of the Corporation of Trinity House, New Zealand Shipping Company regulations, and the history of North Atlantic steam navigation. Also a folded chart of the Thames Estuary published by Stanford, London, and a bundle of notes forming a pocket guide to beacons, buoys, lights, shoals, tides, sands, channels, etc. in the Thames estuary and nearby parts of the English Channel and North Sea.

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