National Maritime Museum, Manuscripts Section: 2000 Accessions

Martin Blagdon, merchant seaman: service records 1940-59
Olive North, survivor of the sinking of RMS Lusitania: collected corresp and papers rel to the sinking of RMS Lusitania
Allen Young, master of the whaler Hope: letter left in Cairn for the crew of the missing Arctic exploration vessel Eira 1882
HM sloop Harrier: logbook kept during coastal patrol duties by master's assistant John Harding 1856-59
William Mitchell, Foyle Line vessel: anonymous journal kept during a voyage made in the 1920s
Marine Safety Agency: transcripts of enquiries into shipping casualities ans seamen's conduct 1880-1900