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View from ahead from beach, with fore topsail still set.

View of ship from cliff-top with figure being rescued by breeches buoy.

Print damaged at lower left corner.

Man being rescued with a breeches buoy, from close-by position on cliff-top; bow of ship in background.

Bows-on view from shore showing lines rigged from ship to shore.

Low-angle view from shore of port bow, with tug secured alongside.

Postcard format

Print; some fading in foreground

Print

Print; missing lower left corner, making verso caption illegible

Print

Print from a full plate; slight damage and shading to corners

Albumen print

Set-piece view from foreshore, with figures in f'ground and tug in background far right during salvage operation. Some creases and corner blemishes

From the Way donation

Mounts Bay
Newlyn fishing fleet and brigantine bound for Penzance.

Newlyn Fisherwomen- Collecting the Catch
The second woman in from the right is Mary Wearne. As a young woman she often modelled for the Newlyn School painter Stanhope Forbes, and appeared in a number of his works including Hopeless Dawn and Last…

Cape Cornwall
St Just United Mine with Cape Cornwall in the background.

Botallack Crowns Mine
On the hillside behind are Wheal Edward and West Wheal Owles

Cornish Fishwives
Blanche Courtney and Betsy Lanyon. They sold their fish in the Market Place in Penzance and door to door. And Blanche in particular, became a favourite model for the Newlyn School Painters.