Fifty years a shipbuilder

A self-published account by the author of his career as a shipbuilder or naval architect. Apprenticed in 1948 to the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company in Fife, Martin then spent three years at sea as an engineer with Alfred Holt & Company, in lieu of national service. Returning to his career as a naval architect with the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company until 1960, Martin then joined Verolme United Shipyards in Cork Harbour until its closure in 1980. Martin then continued his career as a consultant naval architect until his retirement in 1999. Details of the ships on which Martin worked and aspects of ship design are covered. Volume 1 also includes a short biography of Victoria Drummond, marine engineer, who first joined the Caledon Shipyard from 1917 and was then at sea as an engineer with Alfred Holt & Company (Blue Funnel Line) and the British India Steam Navigation Company, serving throughout the Second World War. The text is illustrated with photographs.