- Titles Ships in Heavy Seas (Proper)
- Artist James Hamilton, American, 1819 - 1878
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 19 7/8 × 30 × 15/16 in. (50.5 × 76.2 × 2.4 cm) frame: 24 1/4 × 34 1/2 × 2 in. (61.6 × 87.6 × 5.1 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, 1989.21
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature Recto, prior to lining: James Hamilton 1874
- Provenance Auctioned at American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Sotheby's Arcade, New York, April 14, 1989, lot 68; purchased by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 1989