CLIO
CLIO
Years Active: 1940-c1981
Vessel Type: Wooden Motor Vessel
Motor Launch
Nationality: Falkland Islands
Ran ashore in the Murrell River, East Falkland, after 40 years of towing oil barges, ferrying Stanley school children and helping SS GREAT BRITAIN.
Main Use:
Harbour Tender/tug later Farm Support
Years Active:
1940-c1981
Power:
Motor
Built:
1940
Size:
40 Gross tons
Length 12.80 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Astillero De Rozic & Matic Co at Punta Arenas, Chile
Main Use: Harbour Tender/tug later Farm Support
Built: 1940
Power: Motor
Design/Build: Astillero De Rozic & Matic Co at Punta Arenas, Chile
Size: 40 Gross tons
Dimensions: Length 12.80 metres
During a long career in the Falklands, the CLIO had a varied and sometimes dramatic career. For 40 years, between 1940 and 1980, belonging to the Falkland Islands Company, she towed oil barges from tankers in Port William to The Camber in Stanley Harbour. She also had another job – ferrying school children, living at the Camber, to their lessons in Stanley. In 1966, she helped refloat a local cutter, the GLEAM, from the beach east of Engineer Point, after she broke away from her moorings on the night of 14th September, during a fierce storm. GLEAM sustained considerable damage and had she not been towed off she would have been most likely destroyed by the heavy gale force winds. In April 1970, the CLIO along with the LIVELY, MARAUDER and MALVINAS assisted in refloating and escorting the SS GREAT BRITAIN into Stanley Harbour. By 1981 she had seen her best days and, now without a motor, was being used by the Murrel Farm as a lighter, taking wool bales to Stanley.
During a long career in the Falklands, the CLIO had a varied and sometimes dramatic career. For 40 years, between 1940 and 1980, belonging to the Falkland Islands Company, she towed oil barges from tankers in Port William to The Camber in Stanley Harbour. She also had another job – ferrying school children, living at the Camber, to their lessons in Stanley. In 1966, she helped refloat a local cutter, the GLEAM, from the beach east of Engineer Point, after she broke away from her moorings on the night of 14th September, during a fierce storm. GLEAM sustained considerable damage and had she not been towed off she would have been most likely destroyed by the heavy gale force winds. In April 1970, the CLIO along with the LIVELY, MARAUDER and MALVINAS assisted in refloating and escorting the SS GREAT BRITAIN into Stanley Harbour. By 1981 she had seen her best days and, now without a motor, was being used by the Murrel Farm as a lighter, taking wool bales to Stanley.
