CHANCE
CHANCE
Years Active: 1870-1905
Vessel Type: Wooden Yawl
Yawl
Nationality: Falkland Islands
Driven ashore and wrecked in Rous Creek, West Falkland, on 8th March 1905, whilst seeking a safe anchorage after being caught in a storm.
Main Use:
Mail, Farm Settlement Support, Coasting
Years Active:
1870-1905
Power:
Sail
Built:
1870
Size:
35.82 Gross and Net tons
15.54 x 5.39 x 2.53 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Gosport, Hampshire, England
Main Use: Mail, Farm Settlement Support, Coasting
Built: 1870
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Gosport, Hampshire, England
Size: 35.82 Gross and Net tons
Dimensions: 15.54 x 5.39 x 2.53 metres
A former British Admiralty Revenue Cruiser, the CHANCE arrived in the Falklands on 2nd December 1886. Not to hunt smugglers, as she would have done in the UK, but to work as a coastal vessel supporting the settlements and carrying mail. CHANCE was fast, very fast. In January 1895 she took just 41 hours to travel from the coast of Patagonia to New Island in the Falklands. But she was also prone to running aground. In March 1896, CHANCE was badly damaged when she was blown on to the shore in Stanley Harbour by a gale. In August 1902 she was ashore again on Yorke Rocks in Port William but was undamaged and soon refloated. A third visit to the shoreline came in May 1904, when she went aground at Wharton Harbour. Her final grounding came when she was wrecked in Rous Creek, after seeking refuge there, whilst en route from Punta Arenas to Stanley, on 8th March 1905.
A former British Admiralty Revenue Cruiser, the CHANCE arrived in the Falklands on 2nd December 1886. Not to hunt smugglers, as she would have done in the UK, but to work as a coastal vessel supporting the settlements and carrying mail. CHANCE was fast, very fast. In January 1895 she took just 41 hours to travel from the coast of Patagonia to New Island in the Falklands. But she was also prone to running aground. In March 1896, CHANCE was badly damaged when she was blown on to the shore in Stanley Harbour by a gale. In August 1902 she was ashore again on Yorke Rocks in Port William but was undamaged and soon refloated. A third visit to the shoreline came in May 1904, when she went aground at Wharton Harbour. Her final grounding came when she was wrecked in Rous Creek, after seeking refuge there, whilst en route from Punta Arenas to Stanley, on 8th March 1905.
