A view, just off the starboard bow, of a wrecked wooden sailing ship on the beach at Long Rock, Mount's Bay. Only the lower part of the hull, partially covered by the beach, hs planking in place. The rest has been removed or broken away, The frames are explosed with a number of the higher futtocks gone. A horse and cart is off the stern moving away from the camera. A group of people are standing and sitting off the port side. In the distance is Saint Michael's Mount.

There has been a suggestion that this is the wreck of the Petrellen, but there is no evidence either way at present. It is certainly not the Jeune Hortense (1858), as the brigantine was recovered and eventually broken up elsewhere. See G14227 for a more distant view of the wreck taken at a similar time using a dryplate negative.