A 12x10 negative. A close port broadside view of the spritail rigged general cargo barge James Piper (1894) under sail in the Thames Estuary during the Thames Barge Match. She is on the port tack, her lee board is raised and she has her race number flag on her forestay. Her crew are in whites. The top of her mast and the forward part of her jib are
out of the picture. A square rigged vessel under headsails and staysails is in the right background.