To make matters worse, she even lost her anchor before the ship was finally blown upon the coast near the casino of the Belgian city of Blankenberge.

Out of fear the ship might break apart by the crashing waves, captain Leperion decided to use torches as a signal of distress towards the lifeguards stationed along the coast.

[3] By 1430 hours, amongst a growing crowd of civilians on the Seawall, a rescue attempt for the five stricken crewmembers on Nominoé was made with a lifeboat occupied by 13 lifeguards wearing lifebelts.

All five victims were seen as heroes and therefore buried next to each other on 2 December 1889 at 10 am on the honour park section of the cemetery of Blankenberge named De Plicht (The Duty) with one grave vacant as the person is still missing.

The disaster is still commemorated in Blankenberge to this day, even having a restaurant named after the ship located on the seawall near the place where she ran aground in 1889.

The Belgian painter Jules Gadeyne even made a painting showing the wrecked ship along with the difficult rescue attempts.