A view of four dead cattle from the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881) lying in the foreground on the shingle Polpeor Beach, just below the Lizard Point, close to the wreck of the ship. A cart drawn by five horses is at the bottom of the slope leading up to the lookout and RNLI Lifeboat station. The cart contains a number of sacks and a dead cow is attached to the back of the cart to be dragged up the slope. Stacked against the cliff face, partially obscured by the ramp's retaining wall are lengths of timber, sacks and other flotsam and jetsam.

The Suffolk left Baltimore on 14 September 1886 for passage to London but ran into heavy rain and poor visibility off the Scilly Isles on 28 September. The captain had set a course he believed would keep him clear of The Lizard but the ship ran ashore at old Lizard Head doing about six knots. The crew and two passengers were rescued. The cargo consisted of 161 cattle (steers) of which 26 survived, flour, wheat, tobacco and walnut logs amongst other cargoes. The ship broke its back on the evening of 29 September and broke up and capsized on 1 October 1886.