A port bow view of the steam collier Ransome (1870) aground and submerged to the open bridge off the entrance to Penzance Harbour. 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. Two trawlers are under sail leaving Penzance Harbour, leaving the wreck to their starboard. The closest is a Lowestoft-registered trawler with 'LT147' [may not be 7] painted on the starboard bow. Two other trawlers are anchored outside, one with no sails set and the other with the main sail hoisted.

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.