Transcripts and photocopies of papers relating to David Lawson, master of SS FRESHFILED.

Includes; transcripts of letters written by David Lawson to his wife and sister between July 1904 and February 1905 (for the original letters please see HSR/Z/49/1); press cutting transcript about a malaria outbreak on the FRESHFIELD; press cutting transcript listing the crew of the FRESHFIELD on its last voyage; photocopy of a press cutting concerning a speech in the House of Lords by Lord Muskberry on the perils of winter deck loads, during which he referred to the FRESHFIELD; a photocopy of Board of Trade inquiry into the loss of the FRESHFIELD; probate document granting the estate of David Lawson to his wife Isabella.