A starboard broadside view of an unidentified brig-rigged merchant steamship under way in The Downs. She is a very unusual vessel with a clipper bow, a figurehead, spike bowsprit and a full brig rig. She has a raised forecastle and a flush deck with a small turtle backed poop at the stern. She is carrying at least seven boats: a small seaboat is under davits on the port side between the foremast and the bridge, A pair of larger boats are abreast the bridge with another pair of large boats under davits on either side abaft the mainmast and a pair of smaller rowing boats under davits on either side between the funnel and the mainmast. She is possible a research vessel or a school ship. An ink inscription on the negative reads "The Belgian Navy. F.N.A. Cam. B. 20.9.06." The Belgian Navy did not exist at the time this negative was made and no vessel named "The Belgian Navy", or anything like it, has been traced in Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It is not a Belgian mercantile training ship.