Inscribed and signed by the artist: 'Action off the Texel October 28th 1914 / shelling the torpedo boats / W. L. Wyllie'. This drawing was reproduced in Wyllie and M.F. Wren's 'Sea Fights of the Great War' (1918) f. p.28. The date given is wrong (and in the book), since the action shown took place on 17 October 1914 between the British light cruiser 'Undaunted' with the four destroyers of the 1st Division of the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla out of Harwich ('Lance', 'Legion', 'Lennon' and 'Loyal'), and the four German torpedo boats S115, S117, S118 and S119 (all launched 1902-03). It took place in the Broad Fourteens, 40 miles south-west of the Texel. All four of the German boats were sunk and the confidential books of the leader were fished out of the water, their box having failed to sink quickly enough. Two of the German torpedo boats are depicted here. See also PAF0659 and PAF0912.