A bow view, looking at the port bow, of the three-masted barque Trifolium (1875) lying on its starboard side on Gwynver Sands, Sennen Cove (Whitesand Bay). The photographer was standing on the beach just ahead of the figurehead and bows, close to the remains of the lower section of the bowsprit. People are standing by the collapsed rigging and masts on the left of the image. The figurehead is a male bust, from when the ship was called 'Lord Clyde' and depicts General Colin Campbell. He holds a scroll in his right hand, his left on the hilt of a sword. A plaid is draped across the left shoulder. The figurehead is in the Museum collection as FHD0111.

On 5 February the Trifolium was on passage from Cardiff to Bahia with a cargo of coal when it developed a leak and put into Falmouth for repairs. On leaving again Trifolium met bad weather and developed another leak and ended up beating off Land's End in a westerly gale. The captain and mate were lost overboard during Saturday night/Sunday morning and the ship went ashore on Gwynver Sands near Aire Point. Five men were lost and six were saved. Only two bodies were recovered. The barque soon went to pieces.