A view on deck of the wrecked three-masted schooner Enterprise (1846) looking aft from just forward of the mizzen mast. The deck is covered in a tangle of spars and rigging. Two men believed to be the captain and mate are sitting on a box on the port side of the deck. The tide is out in the distance off the mostly demolished transom.

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.