Sinking SS Hilda

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grand jardin lighthouse


several times visibility improved briefly deteriorated. hilda forced abandon each attempt reach port. around 23:00, visibility improved again , attempt enter harbour made. few minutes later, hilda struck pierre de portes rocks, lie west of entrance channel st malo harbour. distress rockets fired , passengers donned lifejackets. attempts made launch lifeboats, 5 of them either not launched or dashed pieces on rocks. sixth washed @ saint-cast-le-guildo, 15 miles (24 km) west of st malo. tide ebbing, , hilda broke in 2 15 minutes after running aground. 20 or 30 people on stern part of wreck managed climb rigging await rescue. 09:00 on 19 november, when discovered ss ada, 6 remained. total of 125 people had died. amongst dead 70 breton onion johnnies returning selling produce in britain.


captain william gregory had been employed london , south western railway 36 years. joined company in 1869 @ age of 20. first command ss honfleur in 1880. in 1885, appointed master of hilda. surviving crew member able-bodied seaman james grinter. had been twice shipwrecked before. 5 surviving passengers olivier caroff of roscoff, tanguy laot of cléder, jean louis mouster of la feuillée, paul-marie pen of cléder , louis rozec of plouzévédé.


another london , south western railway steamer, ss stella, wrecked on casquets, channel islands, on 30 march 1899 112 fatalities. on 21 february 1907 great eastern railway suffered loss of ss berlin, wrecked off hook of holland 141 fatalities.








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