Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats (1757-1834): volume titled 'Memoir of Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats' covering a narrative of his life from when he entered the Navy until he took over the role of Governor of Greenwich Hospital 1757-1834 (BGR/K/1)
A single bound volume log of HMS Alarm 1780 written by an unknown Royal Navy Officer 1780 (REG19/000242)
Annie Elizabeth Paterson (fl1892): diary of a voyage to Rangoon, on the British India steamer REWA 1892 (JOD/339)
Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849), watercolourist and administrator of the Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: travel journal of a tour around the UK with his father, William Locker (1731-1800), containing some of his first watercolour sketches 1798 (JOD/334)
William Redpath (1915-2002), Able Seaman: diaries (24), notebooks (6) and accompanying publications covering his life and naval service of during the First World War 1915-2002 (RED)
Walter Lord (1917-2002), lawyer, author and popular historian, and William MacQuitty (1905-2004), film producer: material rel to MacQuitty's interest in Titanic and Lord's book 'A Night to Remember'; incl correspondence, photographs and transcripts of interviews with survivors of the sinking of the Titanic; storyboards and publicity material concerning 'A Night to Remember' 1940-1958 (REG18/000144)
Phil Jones (fl1944), of Swansea: typescript of an account of a voyage on the sailing schooner HARRY of Swansea (83229), which took place in 1893 and was written in 1944 telling the story of surviving three hurricanes 1944 (JOD/338)
Alexander Loudon (fl1801): journal kept while Purser on HMS Romulus during an expedition to Egypt, in which he describes experiences on board and on land, particularly rel to buying of supplies 1801 (REG18/000482)
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