The exciting moment of the loading of the boiler into the hull of the ship becomes, in the superimposition and representational fragmentation of the pictorial elements, a pictorial event that is difficult to penetrate at first glance.

The surroundings of the harbor and the ship are only dimly discernible. Cranes, ship loading arms and ropes, however, clearly locate the pictorial action. In the center of the picture is the boiler, which is hanging on a hook and placed securely in the hull of the ship. The dynamic and powerful back view of a worker at the right edge of the picture indicates, as in other depictions of workers, the heaviness of the physical labor. The tremendous physical and mental tension of the workers and lashers responsible for securing the cargo is also clearly perceptible.

The expressive use of color lends the depiction a dynamic energy that is controlled and modulated by the nested pictorial structure.