A starboard side view, just aft of the broadside of the three-masted schooner Enterprise (1846) aground upright on the sands off Hayle Bar.

A starboard view, just aft of the broadside, of the Enterprise (1846) of Beaumaris aground upright on the beach off Hayle Bar, Cornwall. The mizzen topmast is suspended in the rigging and some of the sails have blown out from the gale that wrecked the ship. Two men are standing next to the hull looking at the camera. Water is pouring from the hull at the turn of the bilges below the foremast.

The Enterprise [Enterprize] (1846) was bound from Charlestown, USA, to Manchester with a cargo of china clay when its sails were blown out in a gale leaving the ship drifting. The St. Ives RNLI lifeboat James Stevens No. 10 was launched and rescued the three crew and the boy. The ship then ran aground on the Western Spit, half a mile from Hayle Bar. Enterprise finally broke up in a gale on 14 February 1904.

Object Details

ID: G14355
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson, Alexander; Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Date made: Circa 12 September 1903; After 11 September 1903
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 6 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in