A distant starboard quarter view of the three-masted sailing ship Horsa (1860) under tow from the packet steamer Lyonesse (1889), leaving Bread and Cheese Cove. Two rowing gigs are in the entrance to cove, broadside on-to the Horsa's stern. The photographer was standing on Burnt Hill above the cove entrance looking northeast past St. Martin's Head.

The Horsa (1860) was on passage from New Zealand with a cargo of tinned meat, wool and grain and picked up a pilot off Round Island, Scilly. According to the report in the newspaper after the Board of Inquiry, the pilot allowed the ship to stand on port tack too long before deciding that they would not pass Hard Lewis Rocks. The attempt to tack northward failed as the light winds and the tide caused the ship to miss her stays (i.e. could not get the bow through the wind quick enough). The ship was run aground in Bread and Cheese Cove to save it and the crew [Liverpool Mercury, 27 April 1893]. The ship was towed out of the cove by the packet steamer Lyonesse and eventually the captain sailed Horsa after three tow lines snapped. The ship rolled over and sank in the early hours of 5 April 1893. The Lyonesse rescued the remaining crew before Horsa sank.