A starboard quarter view of the general cargo steam screw ship Cragoswald (1899) semi-submerged by the bows in Mount's Bay. The bow is mostly underwater and the stern has lifted exposing the top fo the propeller aperture. A white clinker-built rowing boat is moored on a long line to the stern of the ship, close to the rudder. The photographer was at sea in a boat close to the stern of the ship.

A copy negative from an original print. The glass side has masking fluid on it to enhance the clouds.

The Cragoswald was on passage from Barry to Venice with a cargo of coal when it became stranded on the Low Lee Rock, Mount's Bay on 29 April 1911. According to The Times article, dated 13 April 1911, reporting on the results of the Inquiry, the captain had decided to put into Penzance as the chief engineer was seriously ill. He had misjudged the tide and current leading to the misidentification of the Low Lee Rock buoy on the west side as the Mount-a-Mopus buoy on the east side of Mount's Bay. The ship was refloated after the cargo had been jettisoned.