A distant port side view of the bow of the Royal Navy battleship Irresistible (1898) projecting out of No. 7 covered slip at Chatham Dockyard prior to launching. In the foreground on the left is a mast pond and various timber boards, baulks amd posts are on the right. Three flags are flying from the gable end of the covered slip and a flag bedecked platform has been erected around the bow of the ship. A note on the negative says the photographer is using Camera A.