A small collection of navigational notebooks, cargo stowage plans, and personal documents relating to the career of Albert Llewellyn Quarm as an officer in the Merchant Navy, 1922-1967.

Administrative / biographical background
Quarm was born at Southampton in 1907. He completed an apprenticeship with Sir William Reardon Smith & Sons (the Reardon Smith Line) in 1922-1927. Later he was employed with the tramping companies James Nourse Ltd (the Nourse Line), Lensen Shipping Ltd and the King Line Ltd. He was on the MAGDALENA (1923) when this vessel was shelled by Spanish Nationalists during a voyage from Tunisia to France in 1937. Quarm qualified as master (certificate number 48881) in 1942 and soon afterwards was employed as a pilot at the port of Basrah in Iraq. During the Second World War he also trained as a DEMS gunnery officer. Quarm died at Sidmouth in Devon in 1989.