The Collection of Rosanna Duncan Sanderson contains the notes of her research into late-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century shipping, drawn from various printed and manuscript sources along the U.S. eastern seacoast, and in Hawaii and Australia.

This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, logbooks, notebooks, shipping documents, home remedies for ailments and diseases, etc. Topics include Gilderdale's command of the bark PERU on a whaling and sealing voyage to the South Shetland Islands, the steamships EUTERPE and GENERAL SEDGEWICK, and the ship MARY AND SUSAN; his Civil War service in the U.S. Navy on board the U.S.S. ADOLPH HUGEL, ARLETTA, COMMODORE READ, and YANKEE; and flags and signals.

Collection, 1925-1989, consists mainly of logbooks and notebooks kept by Hiram Hamilton Maxim for his boats, GANNET and GANNET II (built 1939), as well as several logbooks kept by his father, Hiram Percy Maxim. It also contains Hiram Hamilton’s notes and newspaper articles about improvements made to a hand-held Radio Direction Finder in addition to manuscripts and pictures for “Precision Coastal Piloting” and “Miscellaneous Piloting Notes and Other Useful Items”.

The collection contains papers relevant to the JULIUS CAESAR's 1836-1837 whaling voyage from New London to the south Atlantic grounds. Included are Articles of Agreement, Bill of Health, Manifest, a slop book, crew bills, and accounts, outfitting accounts with N. & W. W. Billings, and notebook for "oil delivered," casks, and labor.