Unlabelled volume recording details about apprentices who served on both Ben Line and Leith and St Petersburg Shipping Co (Petrograd Steamers) ships. Entries detail each apprentice's name, parents' address and occupation, the date of commencement and expiration of indenture, the ship they originally joined, subsequent ships they were transferred to, and character report and remarks.
With enclosures:
- Copy of a sailing schedule for the Mogul-Warrack-Milburn Line;
- Working notes;
- Newspaper clippings concerning apprentice recruitment;
- Correspondence concerning arrangements for apprentices;
- List of shipowners at principal ports in the United Kingdom who engaged apprentices;
- Blank apprentice application form;
- Letter concerning apprentice wages.