This is one of 262 drawings and 2 paintings presented to the Museum by the artist's family in 2012, and related to John Kingsley Cook's wartime service in the merchant navy between December 1940 and August 1945. It was drawn on the back of a piece of navigational chart. This scene relates to John Kingsley Cook's first trip to the United States. It was drawn while he was on his way to Galveston, Texas, where his new ship was being refitted. The name of the town, written in the hand of the artist at the front of the drawing, is mistakenly spelt Baumont.