Middle-distant starboard bow view of the brigantine Henry Harvey (1857) aground with the tide out off Battery Rocks, Penzance. The photographer was on the beach looking south towards Penlee Point on the right. A large group of people is standing on the rocks off the bow, mostly looking at the camera.

The Henry Harvey (1857) was bound from Runcorn to Lelant with a cargo of coal when it missed stays trying to enter Penzance in a NE gale and heavy seas on 25 March 1898. The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's Rocks, near Battery Rocks. The Penzance RNLI lifeboat Elizabeth and Blanche came to their assistance, rescuing the five crew and one woman. On 27 March the ship was refloated after the cargo jettisoned and towed into Penzance by the salvage tug Chase. [Royal Cornwall Gazette, 31 March 1898].