A starboard bow view of the Italian steam cargo steamer Rosalia (1892), on rocks below Hartland Quay. The ship is heeling to port. The boat davits are lowered and empty. The photographer was standing on the grass spit jutting out from behind the wooden barn (see G14250) looking across the rocks towards the bows of the ship. Five people are leaning or sitting on the rocks below between the shore and the ship.

The Rosalia was in ballast steaming between Genoa and Newport, Monmouth, when it grounded in calm seas and fog on 27 May 1904. Despite preparations being made to tow Rosalia off, the ship had already been holed badly and was underwater on the high tide.