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If my memory is correct, This vessel is the LAdy Elizabeth, a steel bark. She arrived at Port stanley in 1913 with irreparable damage to her hull. She was a warehouse for the Falkland islands Co (Coalite) and is in Whalebone Cove, east Falklands. During the Falklands punch-up in 82 some SAS types holed up in her to direct air strikes. I boarded her in the Spring of 83 (UK Spring) to have a shufti around her and still have some photos taken onboard. One day I will discover how to post them on the site.
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If I recollect the Lady Elizabeth was a 3 master and the one pictured on this site has 4. I do not remember any other wrecks , and there are plenty, around Stanley which actually have masts. Lady Elizabeth was not in particularly good shape but one mast still sported a yardarm. A team of Americans did a survey of her at the time I was there for the Worl Ship Trust.
This looks like the "Fennia", a four-masted barque built in France in 1902 as "Champigny". In 1921 to Finnish owners and sailed as a cadet training vessel. In 1927 dismasted off Cape Horn and put into the Falklands. Was used as a storage hulk by Falklands Islands Company and to house prisoners/internees 1939-45. Left Port Stanley under tow November 1967, intended for restoration in San Francisco but didn't get that far and was broken up in Uruguay.
This is the Fennia, as Dave Edge and Winefred has informed us, she served as a storage hulk at Port Stanley for many years after having been condemned there in 1927. She also served as a detention centre for German prisoners during WW 2. A four-masted steel barque built in 1902 by Forges et chantiers de la Mediterranée, Granville-Havre, for Societe Anonyme des Long-courriers Francais. Dimensions: 95,11×13,73×7,23 meters (312'1"×45'1"×23'9") and tonnage: 3112 grt and 2729 nrt. Rigged with royals over double topgallants. 1922 laid up in the Canal de la Martinière. 1923 Sold to Finska Skolskeppsrederiet (Lars Krogius, mgr), Helsingfors, for use as a sail training ship and renamed Fennia. In 1927 she was partly dismasted off Cape Horn, and had to seek refuge at the Falklands.
San Francisco Maritime Museum had plans for her restoration. She was towed to Montevideo in Nov. 67, but was there scrapped. Here's a Finnish site with several good photos of her: http://www.kolumbus.fi/jamikko/Purjelaivat_Fennia%20ex%20Champigny.htm Regards, Stein
San Francisco Maritime Museum had plans for her restoration. She was towed to Montevideo in Nov. 67, but was there scrapped. Here's a Finnish site with several good photos of her: http://www.kolumbus.fi/jamikko/Purjelaivat_Fennia%20ex%20Champigny.htm Regards, Stein
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