(Updated, April 2024) Plate 12 from Parrott's 'London and the Thames', (1842). A summer view from the north-west towards Greenwich from the Isle of Dogs, with pleasure craft of various sorts on the river and paddle steamers off Greenwich Pier to the west of Greenwich Hospital. The small polygonal building there requires explanation but may be a misreading of the rectangular pavilion formerly at the end of the Hospital riverfront walk: its eastern equivalent is at far left.

The low colonnaded building to its right is the passenger shelter on Greenwich Pier, with a paddle-steamer alongside the wall in front of it and another more clearly seen to its left, pointing downstream. The large building next on the right behind a moored sailing ship is the Ship Torbay Tavern, immediately behind the west end of the pier promenade on what is now open ground and the site of the Maori War obelisk, within the Old Royal Naval College railings.

On the far right is the (merchant) Seamens' Hospital Society Hospital Ship 'Dreadnought' (misspelt on the integral caption) which in1856 was replaced by the three-decker, 120-gun, ex-'Caledonia'. This was then renamed 'Dreadnought' and served until 1870 when the function came ashore to the old Infirmary of Greenwich Hospital (see PAH4062), renamed the Dreadnought Hospital. To the 'Dreadnought's' left a paddle tug tows a small brig downstream: another comes up under sail on the far left. The Observatory can be seen high in Greenwich Park and the spire of St Alfege's just above the lion figurehead of the 'Dreadnought'.