An elevated middle-distant landscape view looking down at the port broadside of the semi-submerged passenger excursion steamer Lady of the Isles (1875), semi-submerged by the stern. The ship is listing to port resulting in the port bulwarks being under water from the bridge to the stern. The Lady of the Isles is sunk a short distance off the end of the granite pier in Lamorna Cove. A number of men are standing at the end of the pier looking towards the ship. The photographer was on the high ground above the pier looking down across the cove eastward to the rocks and steep shoreside opposite.

The passenger excursion steamer Lady of the Isles (1875) hit a sunken ledge off Carn Du before being beached in Lamorna Cove. The ship was salvaged by the Little Western Salvage Company who later purchased and fitted her out as a salvage steamer, operating in that capacity for the next thirty years.