A starboard bow view of the Italian steam cargo steamer Rosalia (1892), on rocks below Hartland Quay. The ship is heeling to port. The boat davits are lowered and empty. A man is standing on the rocks in the middle-left foreground looking at the wreck, and on the far right is a group of men standing in a shallow gully just above the waterline and in front of the ship's bow. The photographer was standing on the rocks below the Quay.

The bottom left corner of the negative has been broken off.

The Rosalia was in ballast steaming between Genoa and Newport, Monmouth, when it grounded in calm seas and fog on 27 May 1904. Despite preparations being made to tow Rosalia off, the ship had already been holed badly and was underwater on the high tide.