Medium includes graphite. This is practically what is described in relation to the work of Turner as a 'colour beginning', and a good demonstration of Wyllie's debt to him. Though not carried further a substantial warship is sketched in the foreground. The shape behind may be another ship but laid over a pencil sketch of a distant coastline and with the two ship funnels strangely linked making a shape reminiscent of Tower Bridge. It seems a case of uncertain intentions which were therefore not pursued.

The only possible class of British warship that the main vessel could be based upon would be a 'Bellerophon'-class battleship. These ships had two tall tripod masts with tall topmasts, small control tops, wide bridge wings and only one turret of the forecastle. The date would need to be February 1909 or later. The image on the left is impossible to explain further.