On 21 January 1980 she suffered engine failure in bad weather and beached at the English seaside resort of Brighton, to the east of the town's Palace Pier.

The ship was a temporary tourist attraction, with the Volk's Electric Railway opening out of season to serve the large number of sightseers.

During the voyage, she had problems with her generator, gyro compass and radar, and put in at La Rochelle in France for repairs.

The Shoreham lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constance took off half the crew and the captain's family, with the rest being rescued on the morning of 21 January.

After a mobile crane was used to remove the cargo, she was refloated and towed to a scrapyard at Rainham, Kent on 21 February 1980, where she was scrapped.