A distant port stern view of the French steel three-masted sailing ship Socoa (1901) very low in the water off Kildown Point, near Cadgwith, Cornwall. Waves are washing over the upper deck between the main superstructure by the main mast and the poop deck. The sails have been furled on the yards. The left and bottom of the photograph is dominated by the large rocks of the cliff-face from where the photographer was standing.

A glass copy negative from an original print.

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].