A whole plate negative. A slightly distant starboard side view, taken from ahead of the beam, of the 3 masted ship rigged vessel Light Brigade (1854) at moorings in Gravesend Reach, River Thames. She is rigged with double topsails, single topgallants and royals. She has an awning rigged over the deck aft of the mainmast and two canvas windsail ventilators are rigged amidships. The Tilbury-Gravesend ferry Earl of Essex (1877) is alongside the Tilbury pontoon in the background.