A port bow view of the steam collier Ransome (1870) aground, water-logged, off the entrance to Penzance Harbour. The ship is low in the water up to the upper deck, but upright, as the tide is out. A small rowing boat with three men onboard are alongside the port beam. The 'P' flag(?) is flying from the main mast. The photographer was standing on the end of the Lighthouse Pier (South Pier Extension) looking over the wreck. A stone bollard with a chain looped over it and another thick hemp rope passing out of the picture are in the foreground. St. Michael's Mount is faintly in the distance on the right.

The collier Ransome (1870) was on passage from Porthcowl to Penzance when it struck Low Lee Rock at about 1130pm on 17 April 1885 and, filling with water, ran ashore at midnight. Ransome grounded about 60 yards from the east end of the pierhead. the ship lay upright in about 10ft of water at low tide. A gale on 24 April broke the ship in two.