This now rather light-stained and largely monochrome drawing by Nibbs shows a Royal Naval two-decker lying at anchor bow on, with only lower masts standing and other craft round it. To the left, on its starboard side, is a heavy-lift mooring barge, with a short derrick for raising moorings and buoys. To the right is a raft of timber with what is probably a cutter-rigged yacht moored on the outer side, also bow-on. There are several other small boats around this group with men working, and much larger warships generally under harbour rig or also taken down to lower masts across the background. High wooded ground lies in the right distance, in front of which two men in a small skiff are alongside a mooring buoy in the lower right foreground. At far left the opposite shore just shows a shipbuilding shed with another building behind. This topography, with the width of the water and the large three-deckers in the background suggests the location is off Devonport Dockyard, looking south down the Hamoaze. The Museum purchased the drawing in 1972, having been consulted on it in 1965 when the then owner had wrongly thought it represented 'The Fighting Temeraire towed away', which is how it was previously recorded (to January 2019).The Museum view at that time was that it is an early drawing by Nibbs, no later than the 1840s (before large ships such as those behind started to show funnels for auxiliary steam). Chatham was then suggested as location, but the Medway there is not as wide or able to hold the many large ships shown behind. The colouration is very limited: some blue/green in the sea and coppering of the ship and dashes of red in distant flags, but mainly brown/black wash. [PvdM 1/20].