SB Hibernia

The SB Hibernia was a 75-ton spritsail Thames barge built in Greenhithe, Kent in England in 1906, and which was wrecked on the North Sea coast at East Runton during the night of 9/10 November 1937.

Built alongside the Hibernia, and identical in all respects, the Cambria was the last spritsail barge to operate commercially in the United Kingdom.

The Hibernia was owned by F. T. Everard & Sons of Greenhithe and was outward bound from Goole in Yorkshire to Sittingbourne in Kent with a load of coal.

The Cromer lifeboat H F Bailey, under the command of coxswain Henry Blogg put to sea and took about an hour to locate the Hibernia.

The crew were taken off and the lifeboat, after running before the wind, landed them at Gorleston as it was impossible to return to Cromer due to the gale and high seas.