An elevated middle-distant port bow view of the French two-masted schooner Marie Celine (1876) aground on the rocks in Paradoe Cove, between Pendower Beach and Nare Head, in Gerrans Bay. The ship is heeling to port on the rocky foreshore. The tide is out and the water is lapping around the port quarter. Two people are on the port side of the upper deck near the foremast. On the hill above are the remains of the Mallet's cottage, a stone- and cob-built roofless cottage on the south-west side of Nare Head.

The French schooner as on passage from Falmouth to Spain, having under-gone repairs after a collision with a steamer. The Marie Celine was driven ashore in a south-westerly gale, carrying a cargo of pitch, on 19 January 1901. The ship was badly holed and broken.