An elevated starboard quarter view of the French passenger/cargo steamer Paknam (1895) aground on the rocks below the Morvah Cliffs, Penwith Peninsular, Cornwall. The ship is significantly listing to port. Two boats tied side-by-side are floating off the port quarter and two smaller rowing boats are off the port broadside. The right of the image and the background is dominated by the cliffs.

The Paknam was on its way from Glasgow to Le Havre with a cargo of coal and iron ingots/pigs. It ran aground in thick fog on 13 May 1895 while the captain was on the bridge and the pilot asleep below after a long watch. All the crew was saved and a local salvage company saved the ships material and stores.