Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, inventories, deeds, survey reports, crew lists, instruction booklets, work lists, accounts, bills, receipts, ship's papers, and blueprints, relating to the JOSEPH CONRAD and its operation. The collection also includes rough and smooth logs, engine logs, machinery logs, journals, order books, and rules and regulations for training sailing students aboard the U.S.M.S. Training Ship JOSEPH CONRAD, as well as a memorandum of agreement (1934 June 14)...

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...