A very distant port bow view of the Dutch three-masted schooner Voorspoed (1893) taken from the south side of Perranporth Beach looking north along the beach towards Ligger Head and Gull Rock in the distance. The tide is quite far out leaving the ship, listing to starboard, dry on the beach. A large crowd of people, some with horse and carts, is gathered off the port side.

The Voorspoed was on passage from Cardiff to Bahia, Brazil, but encountered heavy weather in the Channel. The ship was heavily laden with coal and machinery and had taken on water from seas breaking over it. Voorspoed was blown inshore into Perran (or Ligger) Bay and beached in the morning of 7 March 1901. The rocket brigade rescued the seven crew and one cabin boy (from Newcastle upon Tyne). The captain was reluctant to leave but did so eventually. The cargo was salvaged during the afternoon although some thought it more looting, as the captain is reputed to have said afterwards: 'I have been wrecked in different parts of the globe, even in the Fiji Islands, but never among such savages as those of Perranporth.' The ship was refloated on the next tide.