Manuscripts

Finding aids for archival collections

Gurdon Spicer Allyn (1816-1876) was born in Ledyard, Connecticut, and was a carpenter, and he built and operated a successful ice house as well as a fish processing business on Mason's Island (Mystic, Connecticut).

The American Canoe Association is a member of the International Canoe Federation and is recognized by the latter as governing the competitive branches of the sport in the United States.

The archives of the American Seamen's Friend Society, based in New York City, circa 1828-1975.

This collection includes a variety of unbound logs, narratives, and journals as well as correspondence concerning Anderson's pleasure voyage from 1911 Nov-1912 on the bark FOOHNG SUEY, from New York to Hawaii.

The ATLANTIC, a three-masted racing schooner, was built in 1903 at the Townsend and Downey shipyard for Wilson Marshall. She achieved her greatest honor by winning the "Ocean Race" and its large trophy presented by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Capt. Frank Averill and his wife, Margaret resided in Rockland, Maine where Frank commanded several coasting schooners including the UNION, LUCY AMES, and BENTON.

Morgan Barney attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating in 1900 with a degree in Naval Architecture. He went to New York, working first for the naval architect, H.C. Wintringham, and then opened his own office where he developed designs for many large motor yachts. He also designed several cruising sailboats.

Barry was naval architect and engineer who worked for the Hickman Sea Sled Company and the United States Coast Guard.

John F. Brooks was in partnership with Matthew Bartlett, a shipping agent in Boston who conducted an active trade with numerous West African ports.

Collection icludes records for over 50 ships built by the firm. The majority consists of building contracts, but also includes bills of sale, notes on certain vessels, insurance policies, and letters between the firm and their customers.

Captain Robert P. Beebe was a a United States Army officer, an amateur yacht designer, and author of Voyaging Under Power, published in 1975.

Forest Bennett was born and raised on Thames Street in Norwich, Connecticut. In the diaries contained in this collection, Mr. Bennett not only notes personal events, but also includes many comments on world politics, and its effect on the New London region.

Timothy Manter Benson (b.1839-d.1890) was a shipmaster from Carver, Massachusetts.

Correspondence, logbooks, reminiscences, and other papers of Charles Anton Knutson Bertun, particularly his activities as captain of the steam yacht IOLANDA (out of New London, Conn.) and friend of its owner Morton F. Plant, and friendships with F. Marion Crawford and members of the Russian royal family.

N. & W. W. Billings was established in 1823 and ceased operations in 1851. During this period the company managed at least twelve whaling vessels which, by the end of business, had made it one of the most successful whaling agencies in New London.

Correspondence, business cards, letterhead, timesheets, and clippings for the Britt Brothers Boatbuilders of West Lynn and Saugus, Massachusetts.

Members of the Buddington family have lived in the Groton, Connecticut area since 1689. The most notable members of the family represented in this collection are Captains James M. Buddington, James W. Buddington, and Sidney O. Buddington.

W. Starling Burgess was born in 1870, and was an aeronautical engineer and naval architect.

Milton J. Burns was an illustrator for St. Nicholas Magazine, Scribners Century, Literary Digest, and made many trips to illustrate for Harpers.

John Carter was a shipmaster from Manchester, Massachusetts. During the period covered by this collection he was master of the Ship ADALINE (1874-1875), and the Bark RAMBLER (1878-1880).

This collection is comprised of materials compiled by Commodore Percy Chubb II, of the New York Yacht Club from 1962 through 1974. These papers are relative primarily to the America's Cup trial races.

Churchill, Brown & Manson Co. was active in trading primarily with Cuba. The main office was in Portland, Maine, but in 1867 an active branch office was started in Boston, Massachusetts.

John H. Cogswell was a lumber dealer of Ipswich, Massachusetts during the mid to late 19th century.

Correspondence and research material, including typwritten notes, bibliography, published and unpublished articles, and drawings, of model ship maker, collector, and amateur maritime historian Clarkson A. Collins, Jr.

Records, 1938-2001, of Concordia Company. Includes records for twenty-three 17' sloops, ninety-eight yawls, and twenty-three other boats. The collection also includes business correspondence, bills of sale, building contracts, notes, IOR ratings, and other miscellaneous records.

Photocopies of maritime court records of New Haven, New London, Hartford and Fairfield counties. There are separate indices for each county. The records include names of ships, libellants, claimants, and jurors. Also lists of prize inventories which include British goods, livestock, food stuffs, small watercraft, and slaves.

Edwin S. Cramp was a Vice-President and member of the Board of Directors at the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

William L. Crothers has researched house flags since 1935.

Records of the Cruising Club of America, 1921-2005, including race records, correspondence, historical files, governing officers'; and committees' files, s, rules and etiquette, clippings, and yacht logbooks. Also included in the collection are the Parkinson Papers, the William W. Nutting Collection, and the Arthur B. Homer Records.

Blueprints, maps, charts, architectural drawings correspondence, advertisements, catalogs, building specifications, and inventory forms for the Crescent Beach Land Company development in Niantic, Connecticut. (The blueprints, maps, charts and drawings are currently unprocessed. See librarian for use policies.) Also, correspondence, speicifications, and advertisements for yachts bought and sold by Joseph T. Cruttenden, who headed the Crescent Beach Land Company.

David Cushman was master of the vessels PROSPERO, DELPHOS, and KINGFISHER.

The collection consists of various documents of the Customs Houses, primarily from ports on the eastern seaboard, from the late 1700's until 1866.

Modelmaker, author, illustrator and HMS Beagle enthusiast

Charles G. Davis was a naval architect, model builder, author and illustrator of numerous maritime books.

Facsimiles and transcripts of port records in Kingston Jamaica for sailing vessels seized by the British during the Revolution.

Rupert Decker served in the United States Merchant Marine from 1927 to 1947.

Personal and business papers, relating to several members of the Denison and Rodgers families, including Gideon and Henry Denison, William P. Rodgers, Robert S. Rodgers and Commodore John Rodgers; naval correspondence and papers of Henry Denison, Commodore John Rodgers and Lieutenant Commander John Rodgers

The Drummond family from the Sagadohoc/Georgetown/Long Reach Settlement (present day Bath, Maine area) figured in the building of wooden ships on the Kennebec River until 1867.

The collection consists of documents, originally part of a scrapbook, assembled by Raymond Dubrule during his service with the Naval Armed Guard from 1943 through 1946. Mr. Dubrule served aboard the liberty ships BERNARD M. BAKER and JERRY S. FOLEY.

William Butler Duncan, known as Butler Duncan, was born in New York in 1853, and was connected with America's Cup races on VIGILANTE, DEFENDER, COLUMBIA, CONSTITUTION, SHAMROCK II, RELIANCE, and VANITIE.

The firm of Dunham & Dimon, which became the firm of Thomas Dunham's Nephew & Co. upon the retirement of Frederick Dimon and Thomas Dunham, was a prosperous New York shipping agency in the middle nineteenth century with net earnings from its vessels of approximately $112,000.

Eliza T. Edwards was a member of the Wheeler family of Sag Harbor , New York. In 1857 she left her home to live in the Hawaiian Islands while her husband, Captain Eli H.Edwards, hunted whales in the Osktosck Sea.

James W. Egleston was a Connecticut native who left home at the age of 16 and spent the remainder of his life in Peru.

Photocopies of ship registrations, captain's journal and ships' accounts collected by Jeff Eldredge for research relating to sailors and ships associated with Chatham, Massachusetts.

From 1892 up to the time of its closing in 1949, the Electric Launch and Navigation Company, later known as Electric Launch Company ("Elco"), designed and built-or had built-more than 6,000 pleasure boats ranging in size from an 18 foot gig or yacht tender to cruising power boats up to 127 feet in length. It also built craft for the government of the United States and of other countries including lifeboats for the U.S.Coast Guard, launches and tenders for various navies, anti-submarine motor launches in World War I, and PT boats in World War II.

Elloit began his maritime career on a sealing voyage aboard the schooner PENGUIN, out of Stonington, Connecticut. Several voyages later he had prospects of being a whaling master, but these were never realized. After further unproductive attempts at whaling, and work as a machinist, Elliott returned to the United States and pursued a variety of occupations in Connecticut, elsewhere in the Northeast, and in the South including mechanic, blacksmith and inventor.

Captain George A. Erskine lived in Stockton and Bucksport, Maine, and was master of the schooners ELLA, CHARLESTON, JOHN DOUGLASS, HATTIE H. BARBOUR, EMMA C. LORD and the MELBOURNE P. SMITH, as well as owning shares in other Maine coastal vessels.

Frederick A. Fenger was a yacht designer, sailor, and author of Alone in the Caribbean, about his voyage sailing the canoe YAKABOO in the Caribbean. His main contribution to yacht design are his use of the dhow-form hull, the wishbone rig, and the main trysail rig.

Chiefly letters written to Simeon G. Fish (son of shipbuilder Nathan G. Fish, owner of Maxon, Fish & Co.), containing descriptions of social life and daily activities in Mystic during the mid-19th century. Other persons represented include members of the Miner and Randall families.

This collection is largely comprised of domestic correspondence between James Deane Fish (eldest son of Asa and Prudence Fish), his brother and sister, his children, and other relatives and friends. In addition there are three volumes, which are diary/account books kept by James D. Fish and Herman E. Street.

Captain Nathan Gallup Fish (1804-1870) was one of Mystic's most successful shipping investors.

Primarily logbooks, account books, crew lists, passenger lists, protests, and sailing orders for the ships FRANCIS DEPAU (1836-1843) and SULLY (1833-1835), masters Cleaveland A. Forbes and Thomas Forbes. The collection also includes correspondence, estate papers, diaries, records for the family farm in Perth Amboy, and other family materials.

The Forseth and Tift families lived in the Southeastern region of Connecticut. The collection is composed primarily of family correspondence.

Although the keeper of the diary in this collection is not precisely identified, internal evidence indicates that it was quite possibly written by Miss Adeline E. Brown.

Thomas H. Franklin was a shipbroker of New York City.

Archibald E. Fraser (d. 1976) was a yacht broker in Stonington, Connecticut, 1945-1975. In addition to selling yachts he also chartered vessels and acted as an agent for marine insurance.

Correspondence, business papers, published articles, photocopies of photographs and miscellaneous papers of William Garden, naval architect and author of several books on boat design.

Ernest F. Gates was born in New London, Connecticut and was a letter carrier and Curator of the "Museum" of the Jibboom Club No. 1 in New London, a social organization begun in the 1870's by local whaling captains, that had been reorganized in 1891.

George W. Gates of Groton, Connecticut, was master of the ships WILLIAM H. WHARTON, NATIONAL GUARD, TWILIGHT I, TWILIGHT II, the bark GALVESTON, and the steamer NEVADA. Collection includes letters written by his wife Julia.

David Gelston was the Collector for the Port of New York from 1801 through 1820. During the 25 years prior to this appointment he had a political career which included terms in the New York Assembly and Constitutional Convention, the Continental Congress of 1789, and the New York State Senate. He and a partner, Gilbert Saltonstall, also had a New York merchant shipping firm during the last decade of the eighteenth century.

Includes vessel descriptions and drawings of the yachts designed by Henry J. Gielow, Inc., business correspondence regarding military vessel and atomic power plant construction.

William Warren Goddard was the owner of a shipbuilding firm in Boston.

This collection consists of papers chiefly relating to the ships MARY & SUSAN, WOODSIDE, FANEUIL HALL, and CATO, managed by the firm of Goodwin & Coues of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The ship HANOVER sailed out of Bath, Maine with James Drummond as master.

Frederick Pease Harlow was the author of "The Making of a Sailor," and "Chanteying Aboard American Ships".

Includes a logbook from the whaling brig LEONIDAS, papers relating to whaling and other personal papers. Memoirs and logbook contain descriptions of whaling mutinies, injury at sea as well as shipboard life.

John Haskell was a shipmaster from Gloucester, Massachusetts who commanded several voyages to China between 1815 and 1823.

The Harman Hawkins Collection contains information relative to the United States Racing Union (USYRU), the United States Sailing Association (USSA), the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU), the United States Sailing Foundation, and the United States Coast Guard Canvas Hangers.

The HELEN BARNET GRING, a four-masted coasting schooner, was built in 1919 by Robert L. Bean of Camden, Maine for the Boston, Massachusetts shipping firm of Crowell and Thurlow.

Collection, 1926-1988, contains the business and personal correspondence, poetry, drafts of "Rudder" magazine articles, school papers, Coast Guard ID, and personal journals of L. Francis Herreshoff collected by Muriel Vaughn as well as Mrs. Vaughn's personal and business correspondence.

Isaac Hinckley was a shipmaster from Hingham, Massachusetts who had gone to sea as a young boy, and acquired his first command at an early age.

Enoch Hobart was a Philadelphia merchant and shipowner during the middle years of the 18th century, and was actively involved in that city's trade with the West Indies.

Hiram C. Holmes was a ship master, merchant, and businessman in Mystic Bridge, Connecticut.

This collection consists of the papers relating to the voyages of Alexander Hallett Holway (1824-c. 1909) as captain of the trading vessels ARETHUSA (Bark), ALEXANDER (Ship), BOSTON LIGHT (Ship), and ORPHEUS (Ship) between 1852 and 1864.

The Houche-Lamphere-Flint Collection contains Houche and Flint business and family correspondence, as well as Lamphere genealogy.

The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association was formed June 16th, 1930, during an annual racing series.

The Interscholastic Sailing Association (originally known as the Interscholastic Yacht Racing Association, abbreviated as IYRA, now as ISYRA) was founded in 1930 by a group of eastern preparatory school headmasters.

The Jibboom Club No.1 of New London was a social club founded in the 1870's by officers of whaling vessels.

The papers of Irving (1905-1991) and Electa (1909- ) Johnson who sailed the world aboard various vessels named YANKEE. Irving also wrote several books and articles about their travels

Frank Bowne Jones was a yacht broker, of New York, N.Y. around the turn of the 20th century.

Andrew T. Judson lived in Canterbury, Connecticut, and served the state of Connecticut as a public official holding the offices of States Attorney for Windham County, Representative to the Connecticut House and U.S. District Court judge. From 1839 to 1840 Judson presided over the trial of the AMISTAD captives.

The JULIUS CAESAR was built in Sag Harbor, New York. During the period covered by these papers she was registered at New London, Connecticut, and owned by N.& W.W. Billings.

The collection consists of three small diaries written daily by Alpheus B. Kenyon in 1864, 1865 and 1866 when he was living with his parents and his brother, Myron, in the Old Field Section of West Mystic, and working at the Maxson shipyard.

The Kilroy-Kialoa Collection is a significant collection of 20th-century yachting materials that documents the sailing career of John B. “Jim” Kilroy Sr. and his five yachts named KIALOA.

Papers, 1909-2008, collected by, created by or regarding Arthur Knapp, Jr.

Edward E. Knapp of Mystic, Connecticut wrote a history of Noank, Connecticut entitled "The Smacks of Noank".

Isaiah Larabee was a shipmaster from the Penobscot region of Maine. Between 1855 and 1878 he commanded the Bark AMANDA (captured by the Confederate raider C.S.S. ALABAMA), the Bark MONITOR, and the Brigs EUGENIA, CAROLINE EDDY, and HARRY STEWART.

Correspondence, notes, memos, minutes, and related papers, collected by Larr, chiefly relating to the organization's involvement in the Australia II keel controversy during the 1983 America's Cup.

The Latham family lived in Phoenixville, Conn. Captain Latham commanded several commercial vessels.

Alexander G. Law was a miniature ship modeler from Englewood, N.J. a former commercial artist who turned to model-making in 1933.

The Lawley Family Collection includes both personal papers and papers of the four generation family business; George Lawley and Son.

Scrapbooks and loose papers pertaining to several yachts owned by yachstman, businessman and philanthropist Philip LeBoutillier (1880-1972) including STORMY WEATHER (built 1934), VIKING (built 1930), ALSUMAR (built 1930) and NANCY (built 1932).

Alfred F. Loomis (1890 Aug 23-1968 Mar 26) was a distinguished yachtsman and writer. He was a member of Yachting magazine's staff for 34 years, and was senior associate editor for that publication at the time of his death.

Harrison Loring established the City Point Works, one of the first shipyards in the United States devoted to the construction of iron steamships, engines, and boilers.

Thomas Bowen Lynch (1832-1920) was a seafarer whose career included delivering British troops to the Crimean War, surviving ship wrecks, participating in the blockade of Southern harbors during the Civil War and sealing in the Antarctic.

Hatsell P. Lyons was a Union soldier, of Bernardston, Massachusetts. Collection consists of letters to family members and diaries (1862-1870) describing Lyon's experiences during the Civil War and his later life in Vermont; together with a typewritten account (1903) of Hatsell's Civil War service written by his son, Arthur H. Hatsell.

Thatcher Magoun and Sons was a highly successful mercantile firm operating out of Boston, Mass, and actively trading in ports throughout the world for much of the nineteenth century.

The Brigantine MARQUES was built in 1917 near Valencia, Spain, and was employed in the fruit trade between the Canary Islands and Northern Europe. Since 1983 the American Sail Training Association had been working with the China Clipper Society to place trainees aboard the MARQUES for the 1984 Sail Training Races, and during that race MARQUES was lost after being caught in a squall, along with 19 members of her 28-member sail-training crew.

Collection, 1925-1989, consists mainly of logbooks and notebooks kept by Hiram Hamilton Maxim for his boats, GANNET and GANNETT II (built 1939), as well as several logbooks kept by his father, Hiram Percy Maxim.

William Ellery Maxson (1818-1895) was in partnership with Nathan G. Fish and seven others, establishing the Maxson, Fish & Company shipyard at a point in West Mystic known as Oldfield.

Includes letters to and from Mears and primarily his daughter Nellie Goodsell Mears. The collection also contains personal accounts that include purchases Mears made on his many journeys for himself and his family and friends, papers detailing an inheritance dispute, and bills his daughter paid in his absence. There are several journals detailing his time abroad while serving as master on over 17 different vessels as well as store accounts from his later years as a grocer in Greene, New York.

Gerald W. Mefferd was a yachtsman, of Des Moines, Iowa, who took a world cruise with Ray Kauffman during the 1930s.

Thomas C. Mendenhall was the recognized authority on the history of American collegiate rowing.

John Middleton & Co. was an exporter of goods from the orient to the United States. Although it was an American company, most of the business was conducted through their office in Yokahama, Japan. By 1900 they were involved in supplying American-made machinery and heavy equipment to customers in Japan and China

The Minneford Yacht Yard was a yacht yard in City Island, New York.

Carleton Mitchell is a sailor, photographer, and author of several books and many articles on sailing.

Collection, 1898-1998, of papers of various model yachting organizations and influential people in the development of model yachting in the United States.

Charles Waln Morgan (1796-1861) was a businessman and shipowner. He became a partner in the whaling/shipping firm owned by William Rotch, Sr., and Samuel Rodman. In 1841 he built the whaleship CHARLES W. MORGAN.

The Mystic Fire District was organized in 1879 by the community in order to sustain their volunteer fire fighting force through property tax revenues.

Logbooks kept at the railroad drawbridge over the Mystic River in Connecticut, which was owned and operated by the railroad company. Logs record the names of vessels passing through the bridge on their way in and out of the river.

This collection consists primarily of American and British charts for the 19th and 20th centuries. Record contains a URL for the listing of the 10,209 charts that make up the collection.

Records of vessels owned by the museum including schooners BRILLIANT, and L.A. DUNTON, smack EMMA C. BERRY, steamboat SABINO, ship JOSEPH CONRAD, tugboat KINGSTON II, and bark CHARLES W. MORGAN.

Sea Sled Corporation reorganized as Mystic Shipyard in the early 1930s. The company liquidated in August 1971.

George H. Newton of Monson, Massachusetts, purchased a right whale carcass which he exhibited across the mid-west under the auspices of the Pioneer Inland Whaling Association.

Papers, 1950-1974, collected by S.F. Nininger regarding the one-design Amphibi-Con.

Manuscripts and newspaper clippings which cover topics including Noank and Groton, Connecticut history, the development of the Noank Shipyard and its purchase by Donald Singer in 1964, the EMMA C. BERRY, the Noank Historical Society and their work, Tropical Storm Doria, the beaching of a whale in Noank, other miscellaneous boats and topics, zoning disputes over the expansion of the yard and finally its sale.

Carol H. Norman worked for the U. S. Navy WAVES at their Naval Construction Training Center, at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Island.

37 volumes containing accounts of time and labor by employees on company steamboats. Also included is an inspector's notebook, and a volume identifying claims by owners of cargo or luggage that may have been lost or damaged during passage.

George W. Noyes II, of the Stonington side of Mystic, was the great, great grandson of the Rev. James Noyes who was called to be the first Pastor of the Congregational Church (known as the Road Church) of Stonington in 1684.

The Off Soundings Club was founded by Edward Southworth early in the fall of 1933 for members interested in sailing.

Jens Peter Olsen was a sailor from Denmark born on June 8, 1883. During the period covered by this collection he was a sailor on the training ship GEORG STAGE (1898), the THETIS (1901), the SLESVIG (1903), the WILLIAM P. FRYE (1903-1904) and the LORENA (1905).

Business and personal papers of four related families, of Salem, Duxbury, Roxbury, and other locations in the Boston, Mass., area, principally engaged in the maritime trades, although members of the Orne and Cushing families also operated a brick works in Salem in the early 1800s.

The ORVILLE HORWITZ was built in West Haven in Gessner and Marr's yard in 1880. The vessel was intended for coastal trade and made many trips up and down the east coast carrying lumber and ice, but primarily coal. She was captained by Chauncey Kelsey. The schooner was abandoned March 11, 1887 when she began to take on water near Baltimore and the captain and crew were rescued by the schooner JAMES B. OGDEN.

Charles E. Packer (1830-1914) was a shipmaster from Mystic River, Connecticut.

Mason R. Packer (1800-1888) lived most of his life in Mystic, CT and was involved in a variety of maritime and business activities.

Charles E. Palmer (1847-1913) was an oyster fisherman in Riverside, Connecticut.

Hilgard Pannes was a seaman, of Manhasset, New York.

The collection contains the emphera, sailing schedules, rates, menus, etc., of several passenger ships and lines.

Collection consists mainly of magazine and newspaper articles about Eskimo life and culture, Arctic and Antarctic exploration. The majority of the articles are from National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, The Beaver, Alaska Sportsman, True, The Man's Magazine and the Explorer's Journal.

John Phillips (1867-1947) was a ship master from Sag Harbor, New York during the first two decades of the 20th century.

William Gano Pierce left America through New York for China, living and working in Canton and Shanghai between 1849 and 1854.

Scrapbook, clippings, and photographs on the career of champion rower Fred Plaisted.

William John Henry Pollard (1824-1897) was president of the First National Bank of Stonington, as well as the Stonington town treasurer for 20 years.

In its prime, the Franklin G. Post & Son Boatyard in Mystic, Connecticut, employed as many as 80 workers, many of them skilled Nova Scotia boat builders.

The PROVIDENCE was a 379 ton schooner, built by G. P. Wentzel of Dennisville, N.J. in 1874.

Ratsey & Lapthorn were sailmakers in England and the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Clarence H. Rayner lived in Stony Brook, N. Y., and during the period covered by these papers, he commanded several coasting schooners.

Philip L. Rhodes (1895-1974) was a prolific, lifetime designer of all types of vessels from small recreational dinghies to large yachts, commercial cargo and military vessels. This collection contains illustrations of plans designed by Philip L. Rhodes from as early as his 1916 hydroplane to a diesel yacht of 1973.

Receipts, instructions, regulations, notes, magazine articles, and photocopies of two logbooks from the eastern-rig Dragger ROANN, a vessel in the Mystic Seaport watercraft collection.

Arthur Cecil Robb, M.B.E. was born in 1908 at Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, and was considered one of the great yacht designers of his generation.

This collection consists mainly of U.S. Merchant Service instructor training manuals for Sheepshead Bay, New York, New York and officer's training at Fort Trumbull, New London, Connecticut.

35 journals detailing daily activities during fishing trips and trading voyages, as well as his life onshore at home and in ports. Beebe recorded the numbers and types of fish caught, the types of cargo carried in trade, his personal feelings about being absent from home, and various sites that he visited in the coastal cities.

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.

The Saunders family were Rhode Island shipbuilders and shipyard owners from the early Nineteenth century until 1960.

Correspondence, correspondence transcript, letter book, diary copy, and scrapbook of William F. Saunders and his career as a keeper of the Quonochontaug Life Saving Station during the late nineteenth century.

Seamanship examinations, notes, and related information possibly belonging to O. Wilhelmsen, a shipmaster with the Esso fleet during the 1940's.

The Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club was founded in September 1871.

Collection, 1851-1994, contains research papers for Lucille M. Showalter's graduate work. Includes information on Schooner POLARIS (built as AMERICA, 1864) and the Arctic voyage in which Captain Charles F. Hall mysteriously died. Also includes, information about the Inuit and members of the POLARIS crew as well as information on other Arctic voyages and whale men. Materials include photocopies of government reports, books, private journals and Showalter's manuscripts. The oversize materials consist of Arctic maps and excerpts from 19th century newspapers.

Papers collected by H. Prescott Shreeve as a president and member of Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Club and as a member of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association.

Enoch Silsby (1810-1841) was a merchant shipowner and agent from Boston and Bradford, Massachusetts. During the period covered by this collection, Silsby managed several large vessels and was involved primarily in the transatlantic trade from Boston and New York.

William T. Skiddy was an artist, naval architect, ship captain and an entrepreneur.

Jeremiah Smith started his oyster business in 1850 as a grower, purchasing seed oysters from southern waters and planting them along the coastal shallow water around New Haven. His sons, Elwood H. and William H. Smith, joined him, and upon his retirement in 1900, took over the running of the firm.

Personal journal and seamanship information kept by Chester Smith (QM-3) aboard the S.S. CHEROKEE.

Stephen Smith was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and for a time acted as supercargo for Minturn & Champlin, a New York merchant and shipping firm.

Major William Smyth was born in 1887 in Ireland and was considered by many to be one of the finest boatbuilders in the United States.

Plans for marine instruments and vessels, correspondence, and research of Everett St. John, a twentieth century designer based in southern Connecticut.

The Star Class was founded at Port Washington, Long Island, in 1911.

Personal correspondence and genealogical research of Claire L. Starr, a New London local historian and genealogist who was the daughter of fisherman Samuel A. Beebe, Jr., and granddaughter of Captain Samuel A. Beebe.

Olin J. Stephens is a yacht designer and authority on yachts and yachting theory.

Roderick Stephens, Jr. (1909-1995) was a renowned yachtsman of the twentieth century.

Includes a variety of government documents from Strauss's time in the United States Navy, primarily concerning the sinking of the USS POLLUX in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland on 1942

In early life Robert Bruce Strout of Wakefield, Rhode Island went on whaling voyages to the Pacific Ocean on the ship ALICE MANDELL, Bark SALAMANDRE, Bark CLEONE as second mate and Bark MARTHA from 1855 to 1862. From 1865 to 1866 he was master of the Brig JOHN PIERCE and from 1866 to 1871 he was master of the Brig CAMILLE engaged in the West Indies trade.

Papers specific to the ship Raleigh relating to its commissioning, construction and the men involved, materials used, stores, captains, crew and voyages. In addition to material on the Raleigh there is limited information on other ships that Takakjian either had an interest in or built, material related to the publication of the "Anatomy of the Ship", and her references.

The Talbot Family Papers is a collection of sundry bills, receipts, notes, and correspondence relative primarily to Silas Talbot, with lesser numbers of similar material pertaining to George W., Theodore F., Henry, Charles N., Charles R., George A., and Violetta Talbot.

Bror Tamm (1890-1981) was superintendent of the Lawley shipyard and head of the spar and rigging department. While at the yard, he worked on famous yachts like YANKEE (Sloop) and WHIRLWIND (Sloop). He was assistant general manager of the Lawley yard from 1938 until the yard closed in 1947 but continued to build and design boats for his friends and himself.

The Thames Shipyard was established in New London, Connecticut around 1900.

Papers primarily regarding Richard Tillotson, a shipmaster from Long Island, New York, during the last half of the 19th century.

Daniel Trowbridge & Company was a New Haven, Connecticut shipping firm that operated during the 1860's-1880's.

The TUSITALA, formerly the INVERUGLAS, the SOPHIE, and the SIERRA LUCENA, was built at Greenock, Scotland, in 1883. She was the last full-rigged merchant ship to fly the American flag.

Records, 20th century, including certifications, datasheets, reports and photographs of various Army watercraft

Henry H. Anderson, the historian for the United States Sailing Association, compiled this collection during his research for the book, "The Centennial History of the United States Sailing Association".

Papers relating to the New York shipping interests and western land speculation of the Wakeman family, including Jesup Wakeman and his sons Maurice and Zalmon.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Walker worked for a more independent treasury system, and the tariff bill of 1846 was largely a product of his "tariff for revenue only" philosophy. A major development of Walker's term was the establishment of a warehousing system for the various customs districts to handle imports. This collection contains letter from Walker to C.W. Lawrence, customs collector for the port of New York.

Samuel Ward was a Lieut. Colonel, First Rhode Island Regiment. He also became a distinguished merchant, settling first in New York and then East Greenwich, Rhode Island where he died in 1832.

Winthrop L. Warner was a naval architect specializing in the design of wooden cruising yachts.

Marine insurance company chartered and operating from Warren Rhode Island, 1801-1846

The Watrous and Bacon Family Collection contains the papers of the Watrous and Bacon Manufacturing Company, and the family papers of Phebe and Miner H. Bacon. It also contains the legal papers of Jabez Watrous, Esq, and the legal papers of Jabez Whipple, cousin to the Watrous family.

The 10 diaries in this collection describe a total of 8 trips made by Charles White Watson, of Worcester, Massachusetts and New York City, who may have been sent to Great Britain and Europe by his father, to visit his aunt, meet his father's business associates, and learn about life in other countries.

Samuel Watts ranked among the most prominent builder-owners of American merchant vessels during the last half of the 19th century.

Robert Weir, Jr. (1836-1905) earned his living in the various careers of seaman, naval officer, engineer and freelance artist.

An early twentieth century coal trading company operating between New England and Newport News, Virginia.

Henry C. White (1861-1952) was an avid yachtsman who maintained an extensive correspondence with Nathanael G. Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff and other members of the Herreshoff family.

The Whitehall boat Collection is the result of research conducted by Mr. Kenneth Durant from 1958 through 1968, into the history and development of the Whitehall boat.

Whitney, Cushing & Company was a Boston shipping firm headed by James E. Whitney and Lawrence B. Cushing.

Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Inc. was established in 1847, and by the late 1880's had become the largest manufacturers of marine hardware with the most diversified line in the United States.

Charles D. Williams was a ship captain, of Ledyard, Connecticut.

Charles Peter Clark was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and was owner of Charles P. Clark & Co., a shipping enterprise that operated vessels in the West African trade.

This collection consists primarily of letters between Henry W.B. Willis and Sarah Freeman Willis from 1852 to 1860, and offer a view of family relationships and domestic activities for two New York/New Jersey families during the middle years of the 19th century.

O.C.& K.R. Wilson was founded as Jarrard & Wilson around 1880, and originally operated out of New Jersey, and later New York City. The firm sold goods to tugs, barges, ships and yachts.

Enoch Wood was a merchant shipowner and agent from Boxford, Massachusetts. During the period covered by this collection, Wood commanded several large vessels.