This is a slightly closer-crop composition to G14028. A starboard side view, just off the bow, of the passenger/cargo liner Paris (1889) aground upright just off the shore, taken from the beach at Polcries, Lowland Point, 1.5 miles south-west of Coverack. Water is being pumped out from the side of the ship. The salvage vessels Ranger (1880), Ajax and the tug Lizard are moored alongside. A tug can be seen, broadside-to the photographer, off the starboard side of the ship. The photographer was standing on the beach looking at the ship, with some of the rocks, seaweed and rock-pools along the foreshore at the bottom of the image. In the very distance, to the right of the Paris are the faint outline of the four masts of the Mohegan (1898), wrecked on the Manacles rocks in October 1898.

The Paris left Southampton on 20 May 1899 with 380 passengers and 372 crew and collected a further 50 passengers from Cherbourg, then making passage to New York. The ship diverted to Eddystone and Lizard Lighthouses to get a navigational fix. However, in light misty rain the ship was about 15 miles off course and ran onto Lowland Point on Sunday 21 May. The passengers and crew were taken off the next morning by tug. The ship was eventually refloated and repaired.