A view from the cliff tops looking down at a port quarter view of the French steel three-masted ship Socoa (1901) aground and semi-submerged off Kildown Point, near Cadgwith, Cornwall. Some of the sails have been partially furled, while others are still set. The waves are washing around the poop deck and upper deck bulwarks, with some washing over the waist around the main mast and over the sides of the poop.

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 four steamers with pumps keeping it afloat, arriving 31 August 1906 [The Times, 1 September 1906].