The general viewpoint and background is from Liverpool looking towards the Wirral, as also described in the painting of Lancefield, the Liverpool Code flags 2,4,0 at the foremast signify 'General Brown, British brig', and incidentally confirm the date as no later than 1836. Built at Richmond Bay, Prince Edward Island in 1819, she was initially owned by Henderson & Co. of Liverpool, and employed in the cotton trade between there and Charleston. At the time of the painting, the master was Thomas London, who along with other family members owned most of the shares in addition to members of the Prowse family, also merchants and shipowners of Liverpool.

A relatively large brig of 351 tons capacity and 103 feet in length, she was broken up at Liverpool in 1835.

On comparison with John Taylor painted five years earlier, the general format is that of Miles, but the relatively sophisticated handling of the sea, the purposeful figures of the crew, and the occupants of the small boat on the left, point to Samuel being largely reponsible for this particular painting. Even the rendering of the 'family signature' suggests Samuel's brush. Painted on the cant, it contrasts with earlier works where the same upper case characters are horizontally disposed and executed with the precision of a sign writer as was the practice of Miles Walters.