Consists of a commonplace place book of sea songs and poems, and forty six original drawings of ships and landscapes by an anonymous author. The illustrations are chiefly of ships, and most are done in pencil. However, there are some drawings of landscapes, and some that are done in ink or in watercolor or wash. There are full-page drawings of ships which are identified, as well as drawings at the head of poems, and ones inserted in the text. The full-page drawings of British Royal Navy ships identified include H.M.S. Nankin (1850), H.M. Gun Vessel Wrangler (1854), H.M.S. Flying Fish (1855), and the whaling Schooner Isabella, which sunk in 1835. After several blank pages there is a page with an illustration of a ship and a key identifying its parts.
