A middle-distant port quarter view of the French two-masted cargo schooner Olympe (1860) stranded on the beach at Gunwalloe (Church Cove). The tide is out and the top of the beach near the high water line is littered with debris. On the left at the head of the beach is the parish church of St Winwaloe with the hills of the Lizard in the background (now part of a golf course).A small group of people are standing on the beach just off the port bow. The photographer as standing on the cliffs to the south, looking north-west across the beach.

The 180 ton French schooner ran aground in gale-force conditions, on Gunwalloe Church Cove beach on 3 October 1910 on voyage from Lannion to Swansea with a cargo of pit wood. The captain and crew were saved by workers from a nearby hotel forming a human chain.