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This volume is midshipman Roger Perry's workbook, kept while aboard the U.S. Frigate Brandywine, after leaving Hampton Roads, Virginia, for the Mediterranean. It contains a list of officers aboard the vessel; detailed series of watch, quarter, and station bills; and notes and essays on seamanship. Notably, Perry's documentation of the watch includes illustrations showing the placement of specific seamen on the yards.

This volume is midshipman Roger Perry's workbook, kept while aboard the U.S. Frigate Brandywine, after leaving Hampton Roads, Virginia, for the Mediterranean. It contains "two introductory pages, one with a sketch of the Brandywine and the second serving as the notebook's cover page; three pages listing officers aboard the frigate in 1830; 99 pages of detailed (and in seven cases illustrated) series of watch, quarter, and station bills, showing which stations the men filled during various evolutions; and 118 pages of notes on seamanship. These last include instructions on preparing a ship for departure, on operating it at sea, and for returning it to port.

Inserted in the book is a separate sheet containing on one side a 'Table of Masts and Spars for all Classes of Vessels in the U.S. Navy' (ships of the line, frigates, sloops, brigs, and schooners) and on the other side 'Proportions for Tops, Trestle trees, Cross trees & Caps'" (David P. Harris, "Midshipman Roger Perry's Workbook for the U.S. Frigate Brandywine, 1830," general description accompanying the Roger Perry Workbook).