These records provide a brief, but interesting, glimpse of the workings of the engine room on a ship originally built and operated as a sailing vessel. There are also 12 colour slides and a brochure concerning the ship which date from 1987, and copies of three sheets of line drawings done of the ship while it was on drydock in New York in 1931. The textual materials in this collection were presented to the Centre for Newfoundland Studies in the 1970s by Rupert W. Bartlett, nephew of Captain Bob Bartlett who owned the vessel from 1925 to 1946. The log-books were compiled by engineers Leonard A. Gushue and George G. Pomeroy. The slides and the brochure were a gift of Terry F. Ridings, Sidney, British Columbia, in 1987.
Ridings is the photographer for the slides.
The brochure was produced by the Bristol County Development Council for the Schooner Ernestina Commission. The original lines were drawn by Southmayd Hatch and Thomas A. Soyster while the ship was on McWilliams' Dry Dock, Staten Island, New York in April 1931. The copies present here were made by the Newfoundland Historic Parks Association who presented a copy to the archives in 1995. There are no restrictions on access to or use of the materials in this collection. Users should be aware that copyright rules and regulations may apply to some or all of these materials.