An elevated distant port quarter view, taken from the cliffs, of the three-masted sailing ship Alexander Yeats (1876) aground in Treen Cove off the east side of Gurnard's Head. The ship has a slight list to starboard and still has some of the lower and main sails set or partially clewed-up. The photographer was standing on the cliffs at Lean Point to the east of Treen Cove.

The Alexander Yeats (1876) was wrecked on voyage from Savannah, USA to Devonport Dockyard, via Holyhead, with a cargo of deals and pitch pine on 25 September 1896. The ship went aground on the east side of Gurnard's Head, swinging broadside into the cove nearby. The cargo had shifted in a gale making the ship difficult to handle. The 19 crew were rescued using Breeches Buoy apparatus from the St Ives brigade. Much of the cargo was salvaged. The Gibsons advertised on 1 October in The Cornish Telegraph that photographs of the wreck were available for purchase from their Penzance studio.