Tinted lithograph depicting the Fury (left foreground). Inscribed: "The First Gun Fired in the East, after the Declaration of War. HM Steam Sloop Fury, Comr Edw. Tatham, being despatched off Sebastopol immediately after the declaration of war, was chased for several hours by two Russian frigates, two brigs and two steamers, on getting to windward of the enemy she fired the First Gun. This print is respectfully dedicated to the officers of the Black Sea Fleet, by Alfred C May Mate of H.M. Ship 'Fury'.". The occasion was after the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854.