Oil painting of a view forward over the deck of an oil tanker, apparently from the port wing of the bridge, northward-bound across the Bay of Biscay in gale conditions. The ship is fully loaded, with a low freeboard and the deck awash as white capped wave driven by the strong westerly wind break across it and also give the ship a very slight tilt to starboard. The palette of white-capped sea, flat grey sky, and ship, is almost entirely tonal in white, blue/grey and black line, conveying the bleak, deep-water conditions through which the monumental bulk of the ship is routinely fulfilling its designed purpose. See BHC1657 for notes on the artist.