Abstract

This collection includes official and personal correspondence, essays, drafts of articles and speeches, orders, and clippings. Present also, are testimony and other documents relative to the wreck of the U.S.S. KEARSARGE in the Gulf of Mexico in 1894. Volumes include an abstract log of the Store Ship PURVEYOR, and a captain's data notebook do U.S.F.S TENNESSEE, ca. 1885.

Abstract These records are the "wreck file"of the T.A. Scott Company, including correspondence, telegrams, transcripts of telephone calls, memos, bills, wreck reports, marine protests, newspaper clippings, lists of items salvaged, charts, divers' reports, surveys, blueprints, contracts, and legal documents, arranged by name of vessel, relating to nearly 500 wrecks, from little known barges to yachts and passenger liners; together with items relating to John Knight Bucklyn (founder and teacher in the...