An elevated port quarter view of the general cargo ship Rosedale (1877) aground, broadside-to on Porthminster Beach, St Ives. As the tide is out with water just around the foot of the stempost and keel. Three people are standing on the beach beside the rope ladder down the port broadside. In the background is St Ives Harbour, full of ships and boats, with the breakwater on the right. The photographer was standing on the grass above the beach on the south/southwest side.

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.