A port bow view, taken from the beach, 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 close to a vertical rockface. A man, in a long dark coat is standing on the beach next to the foremast (rigging) chains, looking at the camera. A boy in a flat cap, also looking at the camera, is holding in front of him a louvred door. A man is on deck near the rigging for the main mast looking up. The background is dominated by the cliffs that make up 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.