The types of documents kept at the Navy Central Library - Historical Archive cover a wide variety of highly specialised items, obviously focused on Maritime History, and is divided into miscellaneous documentation, codices, bound documentation, photographs, films, cartography and ship plans, urban cartography plans and drawings, and electronic documentation.Its collections allow studying subjects as diverse as health and the evolution of medicine, scientific development, new technologies, shipbuilding, fisheries, merchant and recreational navy, emigration, religion, international relations.
The documentation kept at the Historical Archive is further enriched by private archives, received by donation or deposit, from Navy personnel and their descendants.
Searches are made using the ARCHEEVO application and also through different indices.