Lucifer planet was associated with various deities and often poetically personified. Cicero pointed out that "You say that Sol the Sun and Luna the Moon are deities, and the Greeks identify the former with Apollo and the latter with Diana. But if Luna (the Moon) is a goddess, then Lucifer (the Morning-Star) also and the rest of the Wandering Stars (Stellae Errantes) will have to be counted gods; and if so, then the Fixed Stars (Stellae Inerrantes) as well." In the Book of Isaiah, chapter 14, the King of Babylon is condemned in a prophetic vision by the prophet Isaiah and
SS Lucifer started, continued for almost five hours. About an hour after captain Wilson, who was the last person to leave the doomed ship, boarded "Sagami", "Lucifer" foundered. All 35 men from "Lucifer" were safely landed at Falmouth on April 28. The dutch steamer "SS Ryndam" which arrived at Rotterdam a few days earlier, claimed to have spoken to "Lucifer" on April 12, but was informed that while her stokehold was filled with water and pump was out of order, the tanker did not require assistance. SS Lucifer Lucifer was a steam tanker built in 1899 by the C.S. Swan & Hunter