Apprentice's notebook relating to naval architecture and marine engineering

Apprentice's notebook bearing the name'E. White, Landport' (formerly of Southsea). One page bears the date January 1913. The notebook contains neat, detailed notes taken from naval architecture and marine engineering lectures and/or text books. It is well illustrated with line drawings and sketches. The subjects covered from the front of the book include strength and properties of materials; beams; hydraulics; centre of buoyancy; drawings; half block models; loads; joints. From the back of the book subjects covered include some questions and answers; stagings; rudders; seatings; barbettes; funnel hatches; the building slip; tables; long pillars; spars and shores and rivetting