Documents belonging to James Herbert Sloan (1904-1972), a Marine Engineer for Head Line. Detailed contents: a family history of the Sloan family; a portrait photograph in navy uniform; a Continuous Certificate of Discharge from 1938-44; photographs with annotations, including, ‘One of the Hundreds of Windmills on Ireland’, Soldiers at a Greek Village, Battleships and U-boats, a Navy Member’s Family, Navy Crew Smoking, a Life Ring of the Vessel ‘Mashobra’, Motor Ambulance and Lorries at Alexandria, Small Heaps’ of Cargo at a Harbour,’ Australians Boarding a Ship, “H.M.S. Doris”; a postcard ‘to my friend’ (1917); coloured photographs of a Sloan family member with Indian aristocrats; a King’s Order to include James Herbert Sloan in The London Gazette (1940); a note of medal award to James Herbert Sloan (1950); British Seaman's Identity Card of James Herbert Sloan; a certificate of competency as master of a foreign-going steamship issued by the Board of Trade (1930); a testimony of apprenticeship of Sloan on a voyage to New Zealand and back (1923); an Ordinary Apprentice’s Indenture annotated on the back (1920); a birth certificate of James Herbert Sloan; a newspaper clipping containing a letter to John Blennerhassett in Jamaica from Pat (Mar. 1940); a Daily Sketch article from April 4th, 1941 ‘Ship Brings Down Raider With Mast’; miscellaneous newspaper from 1941.
