A close view of the starboard forward poppet of the Japanese Navy battleship Shikishima (1898) on the slipway of the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. The photographer is looking aft and to port from the ground alongside the bow. A man in a suit and bowler hat is standing with his left hand on the drag chain rope, looking at the camera. A note on the vertical format negative says the photographer is using Camera A.