Aquatint with original hand-colour. Inscribed in the plate 'Wm. Westall 1808. LONDON. Published 30th November 1812 by Joyce Gold, at the Naval Chronicle Office 103 Shoe Lane, Fleet Street. Baily Sc.'

Panwell (Panvel) 50km outside Bombay was a usual landing-place on the way to Poona (Pune) in pre-railway times.

The Naval Chronicle was a publishing phenomenon from its first publication in 1799 to its demise twenty years later. Founded by Mr Joyce Gold, it naturally found a market among naval officers during the great wars with France, when the naval procession was at its largest and most successful. But it also aimed at a wider audience. As the publisher wrote in the first issue: ‘We shall endeavor to make The Naval Chronicle as useful and interesting library of itself to the seamen, and an acceptable work to everyone who partakes of the glory acquitted by our brave countrymen in their own element.’