FORTUNATO
FORTUNATO
Years Active: 1869-1876
Vessel Type: Wooden Barque
Barque
Nationality: Genoese
Disappeared without trace after being deliberately run aground in the Falklands to save her crew in May 1876 after her Master was lost overboard.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
1869-1876
Power:
Sail
Built:
1869
Size:
656 Net tons
45.96 x 10.19 x 6.49 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Siestri, Genoa, Italy
Main Use: Cargo
Built: 1869
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Siestri, Genoa, Italy
Size: 656 Net tons
Dimensions: 45.96 x 10.19 x 6.49 metres
On 5th May 1876, the FORTUNATO was deliberately run ashore in Uranie Bay by her temporary captain, Antonio Repetto, to save the lives of the crew. The wooden Italian cargo barque had been caught in a gale four days earlier, on 1st May, and was now in danger of sinking. — Her Master, Antonio Luigi Vario, had been washed overboard during the storm. FORUNATO was refloated and brought into Stanley on 14th June, where she was condemned and sold. The crew left for Montevideo in Uruguay on 6th July 1876. FORTUNATO was sold to a local merchant but there is no indication of what became of her. It is possible she was repaired and renamed. There is no record of any vessel of that tonnage leaving Stanley in the ten years after the condemnation of the FORTUNATO. It might be assumed that she was either hulked or broken up for the oak?
On 5th May 1876, the FORTUNATO was deliberately run ashore in Uranie Bay by her temporary captain, Antonio Repetto, to save the lives of the crew. The wooden Italian cargo barque had been caught in a gale four days earlier, on 1st May, and was now in danger of sinking. — Her Master, Antonio Luigi Vario, had been washed overboard during the storm. FORUNATO was refloated and brought into Stanley on 14th June, where she was condemned and sold. The crew left for Montevideo in Uruguay on 6th July 1876. FORTUNATO was sold to a local merchant but there is no indication of what became of her. It is possible she was repaired and renamed. There is no record of any vessel of that tonnage leaving Stanley in the ten years after the condemnation of the FORTUNATO. It might be assumed that she was either hulked or broken up for the oak?
