GARLAND
GARLAND
Years Active: 1865-1922
Vessel Type: 3-masted Iron Barque
Barque
Nationality: Falkland Islands
Beached on the eastern shore of Darwin Harbour in the Falklands in 1922 after being condemned as unseaworthy in March 1900.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
1865-1922
Power:
Sail
Built:
1865
Size:
599 Gross and Net tons
52.12 x 8.44 x 5.84 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
R. & J. Evans & Co. Liverpool
Main Use: Cargo
Built: 1865
Power: Sail
Design/Build: R. & J. Evans & Co. Liverpool
Size: 599 Gross and Net tons
Dimensions: 52.12 x 8.44 x 5.84 metres
On 6th March 1900, the Chilean registered GARLAND, with Captain Meyer at the helm, bound from Hamburg in Germany to Talcahuano in Chile, arrived at Stanley “in distress” with a 16-man crew and a damaged cargo. Sulphuric acid had leaked onto some of the plates in her hold. She was inspected and condemned, before being purchased by the Falkland Islands Company. For the next 10 years she was used as a floating coal storage hulk in Stanley Harbour. On 6th September 1910, the tug SAMSON towed the GARLAND to Goose Green for use in a canning factory. After nine years, F.I.C. Ltd declared the GARLAND “unfit” for use as a hulk. In 1922, GARLAND broke away from her moorings and drifted over to the eastern shore of Darwin Harbour, where she remains, dis-masted after more than a hundred years on the beach. The ship’s figurehead, now headless, was found in 1966 and given to the Stanley Museum.
On 6th March 1900, the Chilean registered GARLAND, with Captain Meyer at the helm, bound from Hamburg in Germany to Talcahuano in Chile, arrived at Stanley “in distress” with a 16-man crew and a damaged cargo. Sulphuric acid had leaked onto some of the plates in her hold. She was inspected and condemned, before being purchased by the Falkland Islands Company. For the next 10 years she was used as a floating coal storage hulk in Stanley Harbour. On 6th September 1910, the tug SAMSON towed the GARLAND to Goose Green for use in a canning factory. After nine years, F.I.C. Ltd declared the GARLAND “unfit” for use as a hulk. In 1922, GARLAND broke away from her moorings and drifted over to the eastern shore of Darwin Harbour, where she remains, dis-masted after more than a hundred years on the beach. The ship’s figurehead, now headless, was found in 1966 and given to the Stanley Museum.
