A slightly distant port bow view of the Dutch three-masted schooner Voorspoed (1893) aground on the beach at Perranporth. A very large crowd of people has gathered off the port side of the ship, with horse and carts off the starboard bow. People are on the deck and one man is climbing the ladder resting on the port bulwark, just aft of the bow. In the distance is Ligger Head and Gull Rock, off the port quarter.

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.