Shipping inside the harbour at Messina, Sicily.

Shipping alongside a wharf in the harbour at Messina, Sicily. A wooden hulled, square rigged vessel is on the left; her fore topgallant yard has been lowered and her topmast sent down. A four hatch steamship with a deck cargo of timber baulks is alongside a wharf on which there are stacks of sawn timber. The Peloritani mountain chain is in the background. The negative is grubby.