Various documents on the company’s ships, comprising handwritten and typed notes, extracts from periodicals, press cuttings and correspondence. Includes: handwritten notes on Edwards Bates and the history of his company, including a list of the ships he bought; several handwritten sheets with ship details; details extracted from the General Register of Shipping & Seamen of ships owned or part-owned by Edward Bates including URSULA, NEVA, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, CARMENTA & MIDGE; THOMAS THOMPSON, MOBILE, JAMES PILKINGTON, FEARNOUGHT, HARRY PUDDEMSEY, ROB ROY, NOVA BELLA, WILFRED, CARADOC, ERATO; letter (1933) from Anchor-Brocklebank Line to Messrs Vaughn Bros & Co re PLOVER, CURLEW, MALACCA, EDITH WARREN, FOX, BELGIAN, ADELINE & THAIS; copy of letter from Harland & Wolff Ltd (1930) to Messrs A Goodwin-Hamilton & Adamson Ltd re P.S EUXINE, S.S. BREMEN & S.S. NEW YORK – ships bought by Edward Bates and converted to sailing ships; letter (1929) from Messrs A Goodwin-Hamilton & Adamson Ltd re KANGAROO; photocopied handwritten about ELLEN BATES, plus a typsescript extract from Gores Liverpool Advertiser dated 23 Nov 1854; list of Edward Bates' ships cleared at Liverpool (1862 to 1866), including the destination, vessel name, tonnage, captain, and number of crew; typed sheet about the SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS; Typed extract from Sea Breezes Jun 1937 entitled ‘On board the “Flying Venus”; Typed extract from The Blockade and the Cruisers by J. R. Soley entitled ‘The Navy in the Civil War' about the GEORGIA; spar rigging and sail plan for BREMEN & NEW YORK; letter (1930) from the Bureau Veritas to Messrs Anchor Line Ltd about the HURRY PUDDEMSEY; a copy of Sea Breezes (No 225, Vol 23, Aug 1938); a copy of the Mersey (Magazine of the Mersey Dock Board Staff’s Guild), (No 8, vol 5, Apr 1929); correspondence (1916) regarding the GEORGIA, which was captured and sent to Boston; letters to and from the editor of Sea Breezes (1933), regarding the shipwrecked vessels BATES FAMILY and BENCOOLEN; several pages of handwritten text (handwriting appears to be Percy Bates) press cuttings related to Edward Bates & Sons.