Starboard view, just forward of the beam, of the wooden two-masted schooner Welcome Home (1881) aground upright on Towans Beach in the estuary to Hayle, Cornwall. The topmasts are out of the photograph. A white rowing boat is alongside her beam sitting on the wet sand. The photographer was standing on the beach looking east. In the background, just forward of the bow, is a large house (now the Bluff Inn) just set back from the Black Cliffs at the Towans.

The Welcome Home of Plymouth was on passage from Garston to Hayle with a cargo of coal when it was caught in a ENE gale running for the Hayle estuary at 7am on 19 November 1905. The schooner was stranded as it tried to cross the bar and the RNLI lifeboat E. F. Harrison was launched in 12 minutes to assist. It stood by until the crew decided they should abandon the ship, having watched two crew try to get ashore in the ship's boat. The RNLI lifeboat took all five to safety. [The Lifeboat Journal of the RNLI, 1 May 1906, volume XIX, No. 220]