- Nina Baker (b1954), Merchant Navy's first female navigating cadet: collection of personal papers rel to Baker joining the Merchant Navy, incl letters of rejection and acceptance, uniform list, study workbooks; material rel to her membership of the Sea Rangers as a girl and her participation in a school cruise which helped to form her interest in the sea c1970 (REG20/000057 (Uncatalogued))
- Riddle family of Northumberland: papers of the family, mostly rel to Edward Riddle (1788-1854), mathematician and astronomer, his son John Riddle (1816-1862), headmaster of Greenwich Hospital schools, and Edward Riddle (1845-1907), engineer, incl letters (140) from Edward Riddle (1845-1907) to his wife, Charlotte Jane (Charley) Lucas, sent during numerous cable laying expeditions for which he was often the engineer in charge, 1870-1891, which provide details of life on board ship and ashore in foreign places, and rare first-hand accounts of cable laying operations, in locations incl Singapore, Shanghai, Lisbon, Venice, Suez, Manila and Malta 1831-1891 (REG23/000002 (Uncatalogued))
- Judith A. Herbert (fl1977-1978), represented the UK in the second Whitbread Round the World Race: private diary, hand-written in four parts, kept while on board the racing yacht TRAITé DE ROME during the race, between August 1977 and April 1978; also incl a printed version of the diary, self-published, 2017 1977-2017 (REG21/000228 (Uncatalogued))
- Nina Baker (b1954), Merchant Navy's first female navigating cadet: personal papers incl British Seaman’s Card, Certificate of Radiotelephony, Seaman’s Discharge Book, record book, and Certificate of Discharge c1970 (REG20/000106 (Uncatalogued))
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National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive
