At 1.20A.M. on the 16th April the Coastguard reported that a vessel was ashore on the Brigg, and the Life-boat Hollon the Third was launched to help her. She found the vessel was the steamer Eglantine, of North Shields, bound for Havre with a cargo of coal. The captain reported that he had been chased by an enemy submarine, which had fired a torpedo at his steamer. The torpedo missed the vessel, but while the captain was en- deavouring to escape by getting into Filey Bay, she ran on to the end of the Brigg. At high water the steamer became submerged, and the crew took to the steamer's boats, and one of these containing nine men was towed into safety by the Life-boat. The vessel became a total wreck..