AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1.8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was dark, but lit by lightning flashes, and there was a moderate southerly wind with a ground sea. At 1.40 A.M. the motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched and found the S.S. Lee S. Overman, of Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.A. which, while bound for Hull, had struck the sunken wreck of the Gothic.

A government examination vessel got a rope aboard, and the steamer was pulled off the wreck on the flood tide. The life-boat escorted her to a safe anchorage, and then, as she was able to go on her way, returned to her station at 5.20 A.M. - Paid permanent crew.