Mystery Photograph - Wrecks on Penarth Beach - A number of vessels stranded upon the beach at Penarth. The Penarth Pier may be seen in the distance which was opened during 1895. The large steel hulled vessel is a single screw steamer which I am unable to identify and the remains of another vessel lay seaward, and again I have found, to-date, no record that fits the circumstances of these apparent losses. All and any assistance would, as always, be greatly appreciated. The glass plate negative is held within the Penarth Dock Collection. [001]

The photograph was purchased from that well known web based auction site and the above result is the best I can achieve to replicate the image of the single-sided emulsion, glass plate, negative. I believe it is a dry-gelatin type plate, being a half-plate size (4.25" x 3.25"). This technology was introduced during 1871 and used until the late 1920's.