A middle-distant view from the cliffs looking at a port side view, just forward of the broadside, of the passenger liner Malta (1865), mostly submerged by the stern, off the rocks in the bay on the north-east side of Kendijack Castle looking back towards the bluff of Kandijack Cliff Castle. The ship is submerged from the stern to the funnel and then with the waist bulwarks to the forecastle still above water. Two rowing boats are at 'easy oars' off the right hand side of a mass of flotsam and jetsam between the ship and the cliffs.

The Malta was on passage from Liverpool with 40 crew and 21 passengers, and a cargo of about 2,000 tons for Falmouth to complete loading and then to Gibraltar. Having left Liverpool on 14 October the Malta struck the cliffs close to Cape Cornwall at a little after 7pm on 15 October 1889 at full speed (9 knots). The passengers were landed by about 830pm and the crew came off at about midnight [see Wreck Report for Malta, no. 3919].