On the left, a port broadside view of a ship close-hauled on the starboard tack with only her fore course set; her main course has blown out of the bolt-ropes; a flag at the fore. Rocks in the centre foreground, with several men lying on them. In the right background are other rocks with a ship driving onto them.

This drawing by the Younger is signed in brown ink ‘W.V.VJ.’ It is in black chalk and grey wash heightened with white on grey paper.