A close up of the port side of the bow section (bridge to bow) of the passenger/cargo liner Suevic (1900) aground on the rocks of the Maenheere Reef off The Lizard. The photographer was in a boat on the water. The back of the bow section is open to the waves having had the stern removed with small charges of dynamite.

A port bow view of the passenger/cargo liner Suevic (1900) aground by the bows on the Maenheere Reef off The Lizard. A wave breaking over a rock is partially obscuring the port side of the bow. The ship's boat davits have been deployed on three of the five davit points along the broadside. The photographer was at a slightly elevated position on The Lizard looking out over the rocks to the ship.

The negative has been altered with masking fluid on the glass side and graphite on the emulsion side to emphasise the clouds and sea. This is a glass copy negative from an original print.

The Suevic was on passage from Melbourne to Liverpool with 382 passengers, 141 crew members and a nearly-full cargo, including thousands of sheep carcasses worth £400,000. Due to a navigational error the ship was closer in shore and further ahead of their assumed position. Suevic ran aground at full speed on 17 March 1907 and despite attempts to get her off using full stern the ship was stuck. The passengers and crew were removed by RNLI boats from four stations, taking 16 hours. As the bow was stuck on the rocks and lightening the ship did not refloat it, White Star decided to take the advice of their salvage contractors and had the stern section detached using small charges of dynamite. The stern section then steamed in reverse under its own power to Southampton while a new bow section was built by Harland and Wolff.