A port bow view of the schooner Mary Hannah (1861) aground outside the North Pier at Newlyn. Large waves can be seen rolling on the shallows in the background, but washing up to the starboard quarter. A man is climbing on a rope ladder under the bowsprit. A small group of people are standing off the bows. Part of the rig is over the side on the port quarter and the fore topsail has blown to ribbons.

The schooner Mary Hannah (1861) had left Newlyn on 3 February but was hit by a sudden gale the next day. The schooner had been on passage from Cardiff to Plymouth with a cargo of coal. The force of the gale smashed the main boom off the Lizard so the ship returned to Newlyn but was unable to get through the harbour entrance. Having been swept down past the North Pier the ship was hit by waves breaking over the stern and destroying the sails and rigging. The crew were rescued by the Rocket Brigade from Mousehole. The ship became a total wreck.