A starboard side view of the coastal steamer Fleswick (1899) aground upright with a slight list to starboard, on Hayle Beach, near Black Cliff, Cornwall. The photographer was standing on the beach while the tide was out. Two men (or boys) are standing together on the beach near the forecastle break and a man is standing on the covered forward cargo hatch.

Masking fluid has been used on the hull of the ship and in the sky to add 'texture' to the clouds.

Fleswick was on passage from Neath with a cargo of coal when she went ashore off Black Cliffs at the entrance to Hayle Harbour on 28 January 1902. All 11 (or 7) crew and the pilot were rescued by the RNLI lifeboat E. F. Harrison, despite the heavy seas and waves breaking over the ship. The ship was later refloated and then sunk in collision in 1908, before being salvaged in 1909.