On board the Royal Navy battleship Royal Sovereign (1891) while anchored at Lemnos. The photographer is looking forward from the port side of the after superstructure during hands to bathe. A number of the crew are in the water and some are hanging onto lines suspended from the boat boom. A small group are using the accommodation ladder to reach the water. The ship's 42 feet launch is at the boat boom and she has her mast stepped. A Canopus class battleship, almost certainly the Canopus (1897) herself, and three torpedo boat destroyers at anchor in the background.