A port quarter view of the steam collier Llandaff (1865) aground hard against the cliffs of Nanjizal Bay [Mill Bay], Land's End, Cornwall. The tide is completely out leaving the ship upright but high and dry.

The photographer was standing on the boulder strewn beach looking back at the cliffs and the gully leading down to the ship. Two people are silhouetted at the top of the cliffs. Red masking fluid has been used on the glass side to create a cloud effect in the sky.

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.