A distant starboard broadside view of the Natal Line passenger/cargo liner Umtata (1898) under way in Gravesend Reach, River Thames, bound in for London. Two spritsail barges are also inward bound, The one on the left is fully laden and her bowsprit is topped. The one on the right is stumpy rigged. The photographer is looking south-west-by-south across the river from an upper floor in the Tilbury Hotel.