A starboard quarter view of the tramp cargo steamer Blue Jacket (1883) semi-submerged just off Longships lighthouse, Land's End. The stern is submerged to the height of the poop deck and the bows are out of the water on the rocks. The photograph was taken from a boat on the water.

The negative is broken (cracks top left side) and has been repaired and sink mounted.

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.