An elevated port bow view, taken from the cliffs, of the French steel three-masted ship Socoa (1901) aground at the base of Kildown Point, near Cadgwith, Cornwall. The tide is low on the hull. Five small boats are along the port broadside. In the far distance on the right is Bass Point with the Lloyd's Signal Station on the top. A small steamer off Bass Point is heading towards Church Cove. The rocks of the cliff face and base dominate the foreground of the image at the bottom and on the right.

The French owned steel sailing ship was on passage from Stettin to San Francisco with a cargo of cement for the city's rebuilding. Socoa became stranded near Cadgwith during thick weather on 1 August 1906 but was refloated after 50,000 barrels of cement were jettisoned over the side and beached in Cadgwith Cove on 26 August 1906 [The Times, 28 August 1906]. The ship was then towed to Falmouth by the four steamers with pumps keeping it afloat, arriving 31 August 1906 [The Times, 1 September 1906].