Rainier, John Harvey, Admiral, 1847-1915.

This sub-collection consists of Admiral John Harvey Rainier's logbooks, 1862 to 1897, with a gap between 1874 and 1884, and loose papers about the relief of the Cretan town of Kandanos in 1897. There are orders and a sketch plan from the action between HMS SHAH and the HUASCAR off Pacocha in 1877, relating to the naval career of his elder brother Lieutenant George Harvey Rainier (1844-1906). There is also a volume of copies of letters, 1831 to 1835, relating to the promotion to the rank of commander of his uncle by marriage, Captain William Ward Percival Johnson (1790-1880).