An elevated port side view, just aft of the broadside, of the French steel three-masted sailing ship Socoa, stranded below the cliffs of Kildown Point, near Cadgwith, Cornwall. The ship is semi-submerged with water washing over the upper deck between the forward superstructure and poop deck. The sails have been partly furled or the yards dropped, although one top foresail is still set. The rocks from the cliff feature along the bottom of the photograph where the photographer was standing looking down on the ship.

A glass copy negative from an original print from negative G14203.

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].