The Lady Elizabeth

The "Lady Elizabeth" wreck in whalebone cove, Falkland Islands

The "Lady Elizabeth" was built in 1879 in Sunderland. She is an iron construction of 68 m length and 1208 tons in weight. In 1913 she was on her way from Vancouver laden with bricks and cement for a new cathedral in Stanley, but she ran into trouble in severe gales around Cape Horn.

Together with some of her deck cargo four men were also washed into the sea. The ship sustained damage and she limped to the Falklands where she was going to be repaired but instead she holed on a rock, damaging her even further. The repairs never materialised due to lack of funds, so the rigging and the hull were sold off. The hulk was used as a warehouse for a while until another storm moved her into her current position on the beach of Whalebone Cove near Stanley (*).

* Information abridged from "Falkland Islands" by William Wagstaff, Bradt Travel Guide