Fonds consists of 235 black and white photographs and negatives, mainly of vessels constructed at the Clarenville Shipyard during the period that Basil Fearn was manager of the yard, commencing in 1947. The majority of the photographs are identified. At least 50 percent of the images show vessels under construction at the yard. Some of the images were printed from negatives in 1997.

Vessels include the Matthew, the Terra Nova, the Newfoundland, the Marilyn Marie, the Richard, the Northern Wave, the George Kentner, the Philip E. Lake, the Penny Luck, the Shirley Blanche, the Algerine, the Hermitage, the Random Sound, the East Wind and the Right Wind, built for Job Brothers.

Fonds consists of 31 photocopied blueprints of vessel plans and designs, drawn by Reuben Carpenter between 1964 and 1987. The plans were drawn for the Clarenville Shipyard and for Carpenter's Shipyard at Port Union. The fonds includes line drawings, profile plans and construction plans. File 13 and 14 are plans for a passenger freighter. All other plans are for fishing vessels.