After the Commodore was driven onto rocks she sent a distress signal and the Sheringham lifeboat Henry Ramey Upcher took off all 14 crew and 3 stranded fishermen.

The SS Commodore was built in 1870 by Wigham Richardson & Sons Ltd. in Newcastle upon Tyne, as yard number 62.

She was fitted with a 95-horsepower (71 kW) compound steam engine manufactured by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company of Hebburn.

[4] In 1902 the wreck of the Commodore was declared a hazard to Sheringham's fishing fleet and it was blown up by Trinity House officials.

[2][5] The wreck lay largely buried in sand, with some parts protruding from the seabed, in shallow waters off Sheringham's 1936 lifeboat station until September 2021 when storms scoured away sediment and revealed more of the ship's structure.