A port side view, fine off the port bow, of the passenger liner Malta (1865), submerged to the forecastle, off the rocks in the bay on the north-east side of Kendijack Castle. The ship is submerged from the stern to the forecastle with the deckhouse of the upper deck just above water. The sea is surging over the wreck and around the bows.

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].