A starboard bow view of the tramp cargo steamer Blue Jacket (1883) on the rocks below Longships Lighthouse. The stern is semi-submerged with just the top of the poop deck showing. The bow is out of the water on the rocks. In the far distance, between the bow and the rock of the lighthouse, are the masts and sails of a three-masted barque. The photograph was taken from a boat close the water.

A copy negative from an original print.

Blue Jacket (1883) was underway with a cargo of railway sleepers from Danzig to Plymouth when, on the evening of 9 November 1898, the ship rang aground on the Longships rocks below the lighthouse. The crew and captain's wife abandoned ship and were rescued by the Sennan Cove lifeboat. The engine room and forehold filled with water on high tides and eventually on 14 November the vessel broke in two just behind the bridge and the stern sank.