Neill Pierce
- Reference code
- TRA.PIER
- Level of description
- Fonds
- Title
- Neill Pierce
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David Neill Pierce was a sailor with the Ulster Steamship Co. Ltd. and Coast Lines Ltd., serving onboard ships including Fanad Head, Fair Head, Malin Head and Dunmore Head. He was also an amateur ship modeller, with a particular interest in the circular coast monitors of the Imperial Russian Navy. This archive contains documentation from his working life with assorted ephemera on vessels, many warships, and newspaper supplements from the beginning of the First World War.
Contents:
P&O Ferries manual containing comprehensive information on all services such as: Dover-Boulogne, Hull-Rotterdam, Hull-Zeebrugge, etc.; a Regent Oil Company Ltd. booklet containing postcard portraying ships such as: the Ulster Monarch, Hibernian Coast, Pacific Coast, Caledonian Princess, Ulster Pioneer, Saint Colum 1, etc.; a photograph of the S.S. Fair Head; a print of Coast Lines representative vessels (1962); photographs of the M.V. Irish Coast; photocopied images and information on the M.V. Irish Coast; a print of a P&O ferry; a photocopied list of vessels lost during the war (1939-45); a photocopy of future developments; Linking Belfast and Liverpool (1950) photocopy; ‘The Ulster Monarch Era’ photocopy; a certification of David N. Pierces service with Coast Lines Seaway (1954); certificates of watch-keeping service and service and conduct for D.N. Pierce (1951/57); two attestations to D.N. Pierce joining Coast Lines Ltd. in 1951 (1956); a G. Heyn and Sons letter attesting that Pierce served as third mate on the S.S. Fair Head (1950); a letter to the Marine Superintendent of Coast Lines concerning a reference for an exam (1956); an incomplete application for service as a midshipman; a certification that Pierce served an indentured apprentice on Fanad Head (1946); an apprentice’s indenture from the Ulster Steamship Company from 1946; ‘The Story of a proud & gallant ship “Ulster Monarch”’; naval review at Spithead (June 1953); ‘a century of service’ 1824-1924 (photocopy); ‘Coast Lines 1917-70, the rise and decline of a coastal shipping empire, part I (photocopy); Royal Review of Mersey Shipping (June 21st, 1977); Coronation Review of the Fleet by Her Majesty The Queen (15th June, 1953); a ‘Night Crossing to and from Ireland’ booklet; Spithead Review with a map of ships in a harbour and note (1953); a Harland and Wolff Ltd. technical description of the vessel S.S. Lampas with notes, a booklet of information (1976), photocopies of ship drawings, sketches of parts, a large ship plan, John P. Holland biographical information ‘The Liscannor man who invented the Sub’; handwritten correspondence from Colin Gross to Neill concerning museum material (1982); a typescript photocopied booklet on the Popovkas warships launched in 1873; two photographs of a ship model; correspondence from R.G. Todd of the National Maritime Museum, London, to Mr. Pierce concerning photographs (1982); quotes for photograph sizes and costs; a letter from Pierce to Leningrad, USSR concerning vessels (1982); a letter to the London Maritime Museum Department of Ships (1982); photocopies of ship drawings and dimensions of the Novgorod; a booklet “The Popoff” (Aug. 1971); a sealed model shipwright journal; a labelled H.M.S. Victory envelope; H.M.S Victory guidebook and short history (1977); labelled drawings of the vessel (L. Glover 1970); a newspaper clipping on the New York Navy Yard; magazine clippings of various ships: ‘the Fearless,’ ‘Duke of Edinburgh,’ ‘the Southampton,’ ‘Karlsruhe,’ ‘H.M.S Birmingham,’ ‘The Blonde,’ ‘the Diadem,’ ‘the Devonshire,’ ‘the Warrior,’ ‘the Cressy,’ ‘The Minotaur,’ ‘The Dartmouth,’ ‘the Monmouth,’ ‘the Breslau’; clippings of German ships captured by the Navy: the Comet, Elfriede, Kronprinzessin Cecilie, Hans Otto, Perekop, Prinz Adalbert; a poster of Portofino Harbour, a submarine in a British dock, and the Armada; The Illustrated London News page containing information on warships and ‘the Majesty of Night,’ (1914); a pictorial education page entitled Hong Kong (1949); a page with pictures of Chinese shipping in Hong Kong (1949); The Illustrated London News pages containing a sketch of parliament declaring support for France, a submarine sketch by a naval officer, Buchanan’s Scotch Whiskey advertisement, a naval drawing (all 1914); an undated newspaper clipping of ‘The Pamir’ entering Auckland; Life Magazine cover showing FDR watching his fleet off the Americas (1939); Modern Wonder Illustration of Britain’s new aircraft carrier (1939); two newspaper supplements: “Shipping Wonders of the World Today; The Illustrated London News “Hastening to a Fall: Turkey, The Germanised Belligerent,” (1914); supplement to The Illustrated London News displaying photographs of various vessels: The Témpraire, The Dreadnought, The Queen Mary, The Lion; more illustrations of ‘British successes at sea’; (1914); page entitled “the Dreadnought Hot with Life,” showing gunboats (1914); “The Armed and Armoured Aeroplane,” “Dogs that have performed feats of valour” (1914); “The luxury of Britain’s largest Sea Palace,” (1914); “a destroyer in action,” “German Guns in Belfort” (1914); illustration of a torpedoing and sinking of H.M.S. Hermes (1914); ‘The Sea Cadet’ covers (May 1947-48); a newspaper clippings scrapbook containing pictures of various vessels including: the Statendam, the Madison, the Vaterland, M.V. Koolama, S.S. Athenic, Tamele, M.V. Rowallan Castle, M.V. Empire Grace, H.M.S. Vanguard, H.M.S. Nigeria, birthing plans; Royal Navy ships and missiles informational booklet from 1971 and 1986; The Royal Navy Young Person’s Guide (1972); two maps of Northern Ireland, one of Belfast; The Navy Pictorial, full issue; The News-Portsmouth, full issue (Jun 1977); The Warrior, full issue; two ‘History of Ships’ wallcharts.