A bow view, slight off the starboard side, of the passenger/cargo liner Minnehaha (1900) aground and listing to port on Scilly Rock. The salvage steamer Linnet (1880) is alongside the port broadside, stern to the camera. A second salvage vessel is approaching the ship off the port side. Bryher is in the background. The Minnehaha is not moored by the stern, which happened on 22 April 1910 when anchors were laid out with difficulty from her starboard quarter and were relaid on 27 April after they parted in the swell.

The Minnehaha ran aground on 18 April 1910 in fog on passage from New York to Tilbury. The 66 passengers, all First Class, and 171 crew were rescued and landed on Byrher, and about 200 of the 243 steers (castrated young bulls) were landed on Samson Island. The mixed cargo from Holds 2 and 3 were jettisoned, including crated new motor cars, grand pianos, machinery, sewing machines, carpets and other cargo going over the side to lighten the ship. Between 20 April and 11 May the ship was prepared for refloating (using compressed air to float it), and eventually came off the ledge. Minnehaha then proceeded under its own power to Crow Sound before continuing under escort to Falmouth.