Three men retrieving one of only two bodies recovered from the sea after the sailing barque Trifoluim (1875) was wrecked off Gwynver Sands, just north of Sennen Cove in Whitesand Bay. The photographer was standing on the beach looking at the body on the long grass. Six men are watching the body being retrieved and another has his back to the camera. In the foreground is a (purposefully placed?) life ring that reads 'Trifolium / Goteborg'. The dead sailor is not wearing shoes or socks and is lying face down on the ground.

This is a glass copy negative from an original print.

The Trifolium, originally launched as the Lord Clyde, was 16 days into a passage from Cardiff (left on 5 February 1914) when it began to leak so turn back for Falmouth. Having departed on 10 March to continue her voyage, the ship encountered a gale and began to leak again. The ship spent the Saturday and Sunday beating in a westerly gale of Land's End and eventually went ashore near Aire Point on Sunday 15 March 1914. The captain and mate were washed overboard and lost, as were three another crewmen, while the other six were saved. The ship then went to pieces on the beach.

Retrieval of a body (see P50990).