An elevated starboard bow view of Lizzie R Wilce (1876) stranded on Porthminster Beach, St. Ives. The surf is washing around the hull up to the bow where four people are off the bow, so of which are trying to grab a line falling down from the bowsprit. The photographer was standing on the granite head of Pedn Olva looking south-east along the beach.

In the distance is a starboard broadside view of the schooner Mary Barrow (1891) also stranded on the beach. In the background is the headland of Porthminster Point.

The Mary Barrow was caught in a gale while carrying coal from Swansea to Cowes. When three miles of Trevose Head the ship lost nearly all its canvas and drifted in a helpless condition towards St. Ives where it was beached. The Mary Barrow was refloated on 14 January 1908. The day before, on 7 January 1908, Lizzie R Wilce was beached closer to St Ives on the same beach. Both sets of crew were rescued by the St. Ives RNLI boat.

This is a glass copy negative of an original print.