Uncatalogued: Laurensen, Tom Turnbull, Captain, 1876-1963

Career record: testimonials, passport, obituaries; lectures: 'China at the fall of the Manchu Dynasty'; 'An Outpost of Empire: Hong Kong'; 'Piracy of SS HACHING'; 'Piracy of the British Steamer TUNG CHOW'; 'Piracy Ancient and Modern'; 'BBC 1937: The Lower Yangtsze Kiang River.' Two black covered notebooks and one maroon covered containing navigational notes and questions on navigation. Notebook, entitled, 'Yang-tse Kiang' containing diagrams and notes for pilotage. A volume containing newspaper cuttings and some correspondence. Dictated notes concerning episodes in life. A notebook of a journey four hundred miles into the interior of China, 1909.

Printed items: 'League of Nations: Appeal by the Chinese Government; Report of the Commission of Enquiry' 1932; 'The Woosung-Hankow Pilot Association Ltd- Memorandum and Articles of Association'; 'China Coast Officers Guilde and Marine Engineers Guilde of China: Handbook 1933-1935'; 'THe Woosung-Hankow Pilot Association Ltd- Report of Annual General Meeting, 1920'; 'Map of China, 1911'; 'Picturesque Hongkong' by R. C. Hurley, 1925; 'The China Navigation Co. Ltd. Conditions for Service for Navigating and Engineer Officers'; 'South Wales Navigation School Card.'

Photographs of the internment of the German High Seas Fleet, 1918, with list.

Flag remnant (fragile textile) and a postcard of watertower. Copies of photographs held with the Historic Photographs Department, includes a photograph of Tom Turnbull Laurenson.

Papers of John T Laurenson, Fl. 1845-1876: notebook containing notes from a lecture on a year in the Arctic Circle and an extract from a journal kept on board the barque COTHERSTONE, 22 November 1876.

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