A port bow view of the general cargo ship Rosedale (1877) aground, broadside-to on Porthminster Beach, St Ives. The tide is just flooding, as water is lapping around the foot of the port bow. Two men are leaning against the hull below the bridge on the raised sand.

This composition is almost identical to G14254 which was taken earlier when the tide was further out and there were people on board the ship and on the beach posing for the photograph.

On 17 November 1893 Rosedale was en route from Southampton to Cardiff, when it was driven ashore during hurricane conditions, at Porthminster Beach, St. Ives, Cornwall. The Coast Guard used rockets and breeches buoys to bring the 16 crew ashore, as the lifeboat could not get to the ship. The ship broke in two after a storm the following day.