A very distant port bow view of the Royal Navy battleship Cornwallis (1901) being towed out of the River Lea after launching at the Thames Iron Works shipyard at Blackwall, London. The photographer is standing between the ways looking down the berth and in the foreground are Mr. J. Boyle wearing a trilby, Mr. M.G. Pitt wearing a boater, and the photographer's son, Francis Norris Adams, also wearing a boater. A few of the shipyard workers have started to collect the tallow from the ways. A large number of spectators are in the yard and in the left background is one of the towers of the yard's E
ngineering Department building. A note on the negative says the photographer is using Camera B.