A coloured lithograph depicting the ‘Kent’ (in port-quarter view) on fire on 28 February 1825 due to a casket of spirits having accidentally caught on fire during her third voyage to Bengal and China. The British brigantine ‘Cambria’ (with an erroneous addition of a French ensign) is seen coming to her rescue on the right of the image, depicted in port broadside view. Two rescue boats with passengers drift close by, one of which is shown receiving passengers at the stern of the ‘Kent’. The top of her mizzen mast has been broken off and is likely to be the fragment being clung on to by a figure in the lower left of the image.
The artist’s signature and anchor monogram features in the lower left corner.