A pen and ink drawing on vellum of the Lark, a hired lugger of around 14 guns, which was in service between 1799 and 1801. She is shown bearing south-south-east under full sail with other sailing vessels off her stern, right. Her bowsprit points toward a seawall, with a church and a windmill behind it. A flock of geese or ducks is flying in a V formation above the windmill. A lugger was a small sailing vessel with two or three masts, each of which carried a lugsail (a four-cornered sail suspended from a spar). According to Steel's Navy List of 1802, the 'Lark' was with the Baltic Fleet in the North Sea in 1800 under the command of Lt. J.H. Wilson.