Oil ship portrait of the cargo steamer SS 'Dinorwic' in starboard broadside view, with auxiliary sail hoisted, and approaching a headland bearing a lighthouse on the right. 'Dinorwic' was a small coaster of 276 gross registered tons, built at Ayr, Scotland, in 1892 for the Dinorwic Quarry Co. of Carnarvon, North Wales, whose funnel livery she is wearing including its partially overlapping initials; 'D' in red and 'Q' in black. Initially she was engaged in carrying the company's products – most notably Welsh slate – from its own diminutive Port Dinorwic (now called Y Felinheli) on the Menai Strait to markets on England's and Scotland's east coast. As demand for slate declined, however, she was employed in general trading. In this view, which looks broadly southward, 'Dinorwic' is running across Greyhope Bay into Aberdeen past the Girdleness Lighthouse.