A view looking up the unmade roadway to the top of the Lizard Point from Polpeor Beach. The left side has sacks and timber stacked against the cliff face and the right has a number of small rowing boats surrounded by more sacks on the land side of the retaining wall. A small group of people are standing by the boats. The timber and sacks are from the passenger/cargo ship Suffolk (1881), wrecked near by.

Note that the reverse of the negative states 'Prussia cove', which is incorrect.

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.