This is a photograph album with limp black covers and a cord binding. There are 179 black and white photographs (mostly 'snapshot' size) pasted in. There are also 4 loose photographs, as well as an additional loose photograph of "The last guest night" at HMS Vernon, while photographs of Birmingham (1936) and Frobisher (1920) are also filed in the collection. The album includes some captioning.
The album relates to Donaldson's early Royal Naval career and focuses on the following vessels:
HMS Vindictive (1918)
HMS Keppel (1920) in China, 1930-3
HMS Wishart (1919) in China, 1930-3
HMS Duncan (1932)