Framed drawing in largely monochrome gouache, signed and dated ('18') by the artist, lower right. The title on the frame reads 'Japanese Destroyer attacked by German Submarine, / while attempting to rescue survivors from Merchantman. / Published in “Printers Pie”, Dec. 1919.' The attack is represented by the white torpedo track heading into the picture plane on the left, across the bow of the ship. Japan was on the Allied side in the First World War but the destroyer shown presents a problem, since there were only two four-funnelled Japanese destroyers that looked remotely like this, 'Umikaze' (1910) and 'Yamakaze' (1911). When or where either of them came near a U-boat also remains to be clarified, which locating the publication in which this image appeared may help in due course. Visually speaking, the ship shown is in fact an American destroyer of the 'Cassin', 'O'Brien', 'Tucker' or 'Sampson' classes of early 1000-tonners. There were, in total, 26 ships of these types, all launched between 1912 and 1916, and they all served in the North Atlantic in 1917-18. It may simply be that, for illustrative purposes, Dixon needed a rapid visual reference to a destroyer similar to one of the Japanese 'four-stackers' and used what was available.