A port bow view of the steam collier Llandaff (1865) aground hard against the cliffs of Nanjizal Bay [Mill Bay], Land's End, Cornwall. Two ladders have been tied together at the turtle-back forecastle and a sailor stands on the forecastle deck looking towards the camera. The tide is partially in, so the ship has water around the lower hull. Two men are sitting on boulders on the beach, one holding a long rope attached to the bottom of the ladder.

The photographer was standing in a gap between the sheer pinnacle cliff-face on the left and the cliffs on the north side of the bay, looking towards the ship, using them to and the beach to frame the photograph. The headlands of Carn Les Boel [Cliff Castle] and, in the distance, Carn Barra are in the background off the ship's port quarter.

The Llandaff, in ballast, was on passage from Sheerness to Cardiff when it went ashore in Mill Bay/Nanjizal Bay in thick weather. The crew were taken off and landed in Sennan Cove. The ship had a hole in the hull which filled with the tide [Royal Cornwall Gazette, 4 May 1899]. The ship was later refloated in May 1899 by the West of England Salvage Company and sold for £870.