A slightly distant port quarter view, taken from wide off the stern, of an unidentified American-flagged, five-masted schooner under tow in The Downs. The schooner's name and port of registry is on the stern but is not sharp enough to read. The schooner is being towed by a steamship that has two masts and a very tall funnel and has her machinery aft. The steamer is possibly a tanker and these vessels may be part of the fleet of the Standard Oil Company. This pairing is reminiscent of the "horse and cart" combination of the purpose-built steam tanker Iroquois (1907) and the six-masted, schooner rigged barge Navahoe (1908). They operated as a tandem pair between New York and London from March 1908 to September 1930. They were both British-built and British-flagged vessels.