A starboard quarter view of the French two-masted cargo schooner Olympe (1860) stranded on the beach at Gunwalloe (Church Cove). The tide is on its way in but the waves have yet to reach the wreck. People in groups or singly are standing on the beach just off the starboard bow and broadside. The photographer was standing on the elevated slopes to the south of the beach head, looking west-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.