A slightly distant port bow view of the Royal Navy battleship Albion (1898) under construction on the slipway in the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. The hull is almost hidden by timber staging but the lower part has been fully plated. A man in a suit and a bowler hat is standing with arms akimbo in the yard, looking at the camera. Pre-drilled steel plates and some pipes are on the ground in the foreground. A vertical format negative.