A port broadside view of the iron screw cargo steamer Blue Jacket (1883) aground on the rocks off Longships Lighthouse, Land's End. The ship is semi-submerged from the stern to just after the bridge with waves breaking along its side. The photographer was in a boat near by to take this photograph.

The negative is a copy negative from an original photographic print.

Blue Jacket (1883) was underway with a cargo of railway sleepers from Danzig to Plymouth when, on the evening of 9 November 1898, the ship rang aground on the Longships rocks below the lighthouse. The crew and captain's wife abandoned ship and were rescued by the Sennan Cove lifeboat. The engine room and forehold filled with water on high tides and eventually on 14 November the vessel broke in two just behind the bridge and the stern sank.