A port bow view of the sailing barque Queen Mab (1897) aground in Hugh Town harbour entrance, St. Mary's. The tide is out. A man is standing knee-deep in water close the a hole in the hull below the foremast area, from which water is pouring. A dark-hulled sailing yawl is aground to the right of the image (bow out of picture).

The Queen Mab was on passage from Chile to Falmouth for orders with a cargo of logwood when it grazed the Spanish Ledge getting close in shore to take on a pilot at St Mary's. The ship took on water after anchoring and, with assistance from gigs and two lifeboats, and the steamer Lyonnesse was towed with difficulty to the pier head at St Mary's where it was secured very low in the water. The boats involved were the Lyonnesse steamer, St. Mary's lifeboat Henry Dundas, and the gigs Leo, O. and M., and James and Caroline, who were awarded a salvage fee in January 1904. The ship was eventually towed to Le Havre, arriving on 12 October 1903, having left on 9 October.