This engraving depicts the shore and Stack Rock Fort at Milford Haven at low tide, with the Great Eastern steamship in the background, as well as various sailing ships. The Great Eastern was named Leviathan at her launching, but because she had already become known as the Great Eastern, her name was officially changed during her first fitting out. The first attempt to launch her ended in failure, when she grounded on account of her size; the cost of the machinery required to move her bankrupted her builders. She was to have been launched in November 1857, but was not afloat until 31st January 1858. The fort, which was completed in 1852, was built to defend the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke. The foreshore is busy with figures in Welsh costume, who appear to be trading, while two children are playing with a model boat at the water’s edge. Rowing boats are plying to and from the large ship at anchor on the extreme left of picture.