They are meticulously executed aerial views which show every building, dock and slipway. Of the foreground ships, the one to right flying the blue ensign and Union flag is fully rigged, while the other two to the centre fly the Union flag but are 'in ordinary' (reserve). Nearly every dockyard building and installation in this view can be identified and many of them survive. The brick waterfront buildings on the right are the Anchor Wharf storehouses, with the long ropery behind. Behind on the left, the main twin-towered dockyard gate sits in a dog-leg in the outer wall and to its left are the sail and flag lofts and a long terrace of officers houses, with gardens running back to the wall. In front of the lofts (between the two ships under construction on the right) is the Commissioner's house with its large private garden behind, the oldest surviving of all Royal Naval buildings. Further left, on the edge of the south mast pond, the white wooden building with a large central pitched roof is the mast-house and mould loft. All these can still be seen on the site. To the far left, the River Medway winds down towards its junction with the Thames estuary at Sheerness.