Captain T.J. Greenbank (the only one without a shovel) supervises the ship’s crew attempting to loosen the stranded Crown of Austria from the sandbar where it ran aground on December 22, 1892 off the coast of Brazil. Martin Nisbet’s great-grandfather John McPherson is on the right, closest to the camera. Courtesy Martin Nisbet. See also P. 388 of the By Sea, By Land book.
