3-070-961 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Flamingo ashore at St. Margaret's Bay, near the South Foreland, 1881. 'Wreck of the Flamingo. All efforts to tow off the Flamingo, a screw-steamer, outward bound, which during a heavy south-westerly gale stranded on Hope Point, at St. Margaret's, near Dover, have been unsuccessful. The Flamingo, 1852 tons gross register, was built at Glasgow in 1874, and was owned by Messrs. Sealor, White, and Co., of Leith. She was bound from London to Calcutta with a general cargo, and had just left the docks when she encountered a heavy gale, in which she lost her rudder. Signals of distress were shown, but before she could obtain any assistance she drifted ashore at St. Margaret's Bay. Her rudder and stern-posts had been washed away, and the afterhold was full of water. The fore-hold and engine-room had been kept free. A gang of about twenty men was sent from Dover by Lloyd's agents to work the pumps, but their efforts to reduce the water in her hold were unsuccessful'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.