 Lloyd's of London listed her at 611 gross register tons.Carrying cotton and miscellaneous cargo, "Nicaragua" left Tampico, Mexico, on 11 October 1912 bound for Port Arthur, Texas.Five days later, on the evening of 16 October 1912 during a storm that sank vessels all over the Gulf of Mexico, "Nicaragua" suffered a broken rudder chain and was left adrift near the Devil's Elbow, a point of tidal convergence around milepost 50 from Malaquite Beach on Texas's Padre Island National Seashore.