Research undertaken by the Parker Gallery (of London) discovered that the Bee, a revenue cutter based on the Humber during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, had been deployed as a Bomb Boat at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1901 under the command of Captain Anthony Summerscales, a well-known Hull mariner of the day. Summerscales and his crew displayed such courage and were so highly commended for their actions at the battle that, when they returned to their home port, Thomas Whitcombe was commissioned to paint a large panoramic view of Bee off Hull of which the above is a smaller version. No other details of Bee are available although since another revenue cutter of the same name was built in 1828 for service on the Humber, it must be presumed that the original Bee had either been lost or broken up between then and 1821 when she is portrayed in John Ward's painting of the wreck of the troop transport Thomas which stranded on the Stony Binks, near Spurn Point, on 8 June that year.