A woolwork picture showing a warship at anchor, dressed overall with ensigns and signal flags. She has one funnel. A second ship is shown under sail in the right background. She has variously coloured ensigns one on each mast but is not dressed overall. In the foreground, left to right are shown respectively: a small sailing vessel, a ship's boat with twelve oarsmen and a steersman dressed in white frocks and sennet hats with an officer seated in the stern, and a small paddle steamer with two funnels wearing the Red Ensign and the Admiralty flag. The picture is embroidered in long and short stitch with button thread used for the rigging. It has been framed.

The maker Charles Weedon was born at Portbury, Somerset in November 1833. He entered the Royal Navy on 23 February 1859 after serving in the merchant service. He was rated Able Seaman in HMS 'Algiers' and transferred to 'Leader' May 1863, also having spent a brief period in 'Duke of Wellington'. Although he had been promoted to Leading Seaman, then to Barge Cox, in July 1865 he was disrated to Able Seaman. He was discharged to HM Dockyard Sheerness in 1868 where he worked as a rigger. In 1869 in Bristol, he married Rosa Alberta Cook, age 27. The embroideries were donated by his daughter.