Cartoon shows a ship tilting in a storm with a captain dressed in a naval cap and jacket with shorts and tall Roman-like sandals in the act of pushing a thin gangly man with a two-pointed beard, unibrow, and suitcase marked "J." overboard. A whale, depicted with a cheerful smile and shark-like teeth, opens its mouth wide. To the left, a sailor attired similarly to the captain blows a trumpet out of whose mouth comes a speech bubble with the text "LET 'ER GO, GALAGHER!", a slang phrase of the 1890s with a meaning similar to "Let 'er rip!". Across the deck, figures lean over the side, run around, and are thrown about. In the background is a seagull and an anthropomorphized sun puffing out a gust of wind with comic intensity.
