An elevated starboard bow view of the Dutch passenger/cargo steamer Paknam (1872) aground on the rocks below the Morvah Cliffs, Penwith Peninsular, Cornwall. The ship is listing to port bows-to the cliffs at this angle. A few small rowing and life boats are off the port side near the stern. The ship is slightly obscured by low cloud where the photographer is positioned at top of the cliffs looking down at the ship.

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.