The painting, as its title suggests, depicts a naval battle scene. In the foreground, three warships are lined up along the surface of the canvas. From their battlements, cannons fire gunpowder at each other. On the left side of the central ship, there is a lifeboat with a crew abandoning the ship. On the right, another ship is in flames and its smoke rises into the sky. In the background, the rest of the fleet can be seen schematically and more statically, with all the action focused on the first level of the painting. Despite the turmoil caused by the battle, the sea is depicted calmly without any fluctuation in its surface. The colors are dominated by gray-blue tones, while in the upper part of the painting, where the sails and the sky are, the artist uses off-white tones.

A student of Konstantinos Volanakis and Nikiforos Lytras, Konstantinos Romanidis (1884 – 1972) was an artist who absorbed the teachings of the Munich school in his work, mainly in the strict setting of his subject, while in color and technique he adopted the principles of impressionist plein air. The majority of his work was seascapes in which his interest was not focused on the rendering of descriptive accuracy but on the rendering of the atmosphere of the landscape he depicted.