Unbelieveble vision of those thousands people, around the Dutch coaster BREEZAND during the attempts to refloat her in March 1957. The small vessel ran aground on February 11 of the same year, near the entrance of the Bayonne port.
Nowodays, the beach would be closed to onlookers. It was another time...
Photo from my private collection. Full story of the casualty : http://www.philippe-ships.com/casualties/breezand-tarnos-1957.html