This ship has left her boilers in the shore; Captain Henry Storey took her from Le Havre, 6th March 1912, headed for Cardiff in water ballast and left Dartmouth at midnight, passing The Lizard; the southerly gale was getting stiffer. She could not get past to Land's End. She was forced back to Porthcurno, wher she could se a reminder of what to avoid. The wreck of the South America. She managed to scrape up enough energy to pass Tol Pedn; the gale veered WSW and she again was reminded of what happens on this coast. Wimborne in 1910. Despite her engines raging and pumping at full ahead, she made not an inch of headway and the sea was forcing her towards the walls of Nanjizel, a squall drove her in and she struck rocks. The crew calmly stood to and a line was sent aboard. Captain Storey made sure the wives were secure and made sure all crew were off before he left the ship. It took a day for the sea to demolish the ship built 1906 by Ropner of Stockton 3,809t; 100 x 14.6m; ending her days at Mill Bay, 2 miles N of Land's End 21st March 1912.
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