A starboard bow view of the coastal steamer Fleswick (1899) aground upright with a slight heel to starboard on Hayle Beach, near Black Cliff, Cornwall. The photographer was standing on the beach while the tide was out looking towards Godrevy Point and the lighthouse on Godrevy Island in the distance on the left. Small groups of people are off the port bow and starboard broadside looking at the stranded ship.

Fleswick was on passage from Neath with a cargo of coal when she went ashore off Black Cliffs at the entrance to Hayle Harbour on 28 January 1902. All 11 (or 7) crew and the pilot were rescued by the RNLI lifeboat E. F. Harrison, despite the heavy seas and waves breaking over the ship. The ship was later refloated and then sunk in collision in 1908, before being salvaged in 1909.