A 2 masted schooner alongside The Wharf Road on the north side of the Careenage, Bridgetown, Barbados. Two heavily laden lighters are being sculled out of the harbour. The photographer is looking across the harbour from the south side. The premises of Da Costa & Co. Ltd, agents for the Costa Steamship Co Ltd, are in the centre of the picture and a lookout station is to the left. A flagpole with the Elders & Fyffes houseflag and the Royal Mail flag on it is above the lookout. The premises of Jones & Swan is to the right of centre.