Vertical format (portrait) image. An elevated view from cliffs looking down at a starboard quarter view of the cargo steamer Umbre (1898) very low in the water and listing to port below Greeb Point, Morvah Cliffs. The sea is breaking over forecastle and upper deck. A small rowing boat is a little way off the port quarter of the stricken ship. The bottom of the photograph is dominated by the rocks at the top of the cliff.

A little amount of red masking fluid has been used on the glass side to emphasise the waves breaking over the deck.

The Umbre was on voyage from Liverpool to Amsterdam and Rotterdam when it encountered a gale that resulted in the ship going ashore at Greeb Point. The Umbre had struck amidships at low water and tore a large hole in the hold so that within 10 minutes the upper decks were awash. The crew launched two lifeboats and survived. By 11 March 1899 the rudder and stern post had gone and the bridge taken clean away by the sea.