[3] Due to a Northwestern storm the ship wrecked in the evening of 12 March 1876 at Eierlandse Gat [nl], “30 minutes” off the coast of Texel, the Netherlands.

[5] Early in the morning the mayor, commission members of the Noord- en Zuid-Hollandsche Reddingmaatschappij and the vice-consul of Norway and Sweden arrived.

When the boat went to the ship, the first attempt to reach the wreckage and to save the people onboard failed.

[9][10] Dutch painter Cornelis Christiaan Dommersen made a painting of the rescue effort.

[11] In October 1876, the King of Sweden and Norway Oscar II appointed the vice-consul in Texel, Mr. Coninck Westenberg, as knight of the Order of St. Olav as a reward for the efforts to save the crew of the Laurdal.