Subseries B. Shipping Papers is comprised of accounts for the transfer of timber and other construction materials from various ports to the shipyard, and correspondence with agents associated with shipments of a single specified ship. Many of the ships represented in the shipping papers were built by Fernald and Petigrew, and so comments on the quality of the vessel are occasionally found in the correspondence in this section. See Appendix II for a list of ships owned or chartered by Fernald and Petigrew Shipyard.