The episode recalled by the offer happened, like evidenced in the caption, in Crimea in the years in which the nearly entire camogliese armament was engaged in that zone.

The involvement of the Sardinian Reign against Russia in the war of Crimea marked in fact one of the most fortunate moments for the traffics of the camogliese fleet: to it the allies entrusted themselves for supplyings; also France and England recognizing the ability to carry out travels in shorter time, often quite round-trip in the time that other ships carried out gone and discharge (cfr. G.B. Ferrari, "The city of the Thousand  White Sailships", Camogli 1935, anastatic 1991, p. 43).

To reach Sevastopol was, for the camogliese ships, fruit of courage, astuteness, ability, unexpected changes of route. And all this, with transparent pride in the reports, neither to lower, nor in the moments of danger, the flag of the Sardinian Reign. 

Official acknowledgments by the States involved in the conflict did not lack and some commanders, like captain Schiappacasse, will receive "the three medals of the Crimea" the Sardinian, the French and the English. 

Silver medal of the Crimean War  was also captain Filippo Bozzo, one of the most important camogliese shipowners in those years (cfr. G.B.R. Figari - S. Bagnato Bonuccelli, 1982, p.26), and probably relative of the Raffaele here represented during the disease that hit him in that far and hostile sea. 

The inside scene, if it help us showing a documentation of an interesting internal atmosphere, decline instead in a more "naïf" executive style, the same one that characterizes several other offers dedicated to recovery or incidents, putting in prominence, in comparison, the determined and unquestionable quality of those "marine paintings" executed by true specialists. 

Note the evidence given to the presence of the image of the Virgin, thanks to the participation of which the miraculous recovery happened. As seen also by the description of recalled facts in other offers, it was habit of the sailors to carry on board the figures of the Virgin of Boschetto and of the two  patrons of Camogli, Saint Prospero and Saint Fortunato.