 He had painted the vessel as it looked leaving the Tyne following its completion at Sir William Armstrong's Elswick Yard in 1888 and after its loss, spent a year preparing a × canvas which proved so successful an interpretation of the scene that an offer of £2000 was made for the picture, but was refused.It was exhibited all over Tyneside, and was also engraved.Chambers maintained a succession of studios at North Shields where, at times, he directed painting classes, and at which he held exhibitions of his work, and occasionally those of fellow artists.