IONE
IONE
Years Active: 1851-1893
Vessel Type: 2-Masted Schooner
Schooner
Nationality: Falkland Islands
Smashed to pieces in 1893 after its rudder failed in a “nasty sea” near the northernmost tip of West Falkland. Crew and passengers escape by lifeboat.
Main Use:
Coasting
Years Active:
1851-1893
Power:
Sail
Built:
1851
Size:
67.23 Gross and Net tons
21.56 x 4.75 x 2.97 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Main Use: Coasting
Built: 1851
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Cowes, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England
Size: 67.23 Gross and Net tons
Dimensions: 21.56 x 4.75 x 2.97 metres
The IONE had arrived in the Falkland Islands in December 1891 from England to be a coastal trade schooner. On 7th December 1893, she left Stanley harbour for West Falkland and Patagonia. About 60 miles from Stanley, at around 11:00 a.m. on the 8th, near Cape Dolphin, the northernmost tip of East Falkland, the gudgeons attaching the IONE’s rudder to her stern gave way. The wind was blowing hard from the north and there was “a nasty sea on”. With all control lost IONE drifted ashore on the northeastern side of the Tamar Pass off Tamar point. Passengers and crew abandoned ship before she struck land and got ashore on a small bight to the north of the Pass. Nothing was saved. All they had left were the clothes they stood in. By the 10th December, the IONE had disappeared, every piece of it having been carried out to sea by the tide running through the pass. Later, Falkland Islanders held a ‘public subscription’ to raise money for the survivors who had lost everything.
The IONE had arrived in the Falkland Islands in December 1891 from England to be a coastal trade schooner. On 7th December 1893, she left Stanley harbour for West Falkland and Patagonia. About 60 miles from Stanley, at around 11:00 a.m. on the 8th, near Cape Dolphin, the northernmost tip of East Falkland, the gudgeons attaching the IONE’s rudder to her stern gave way. The wind was blowing hard from the north and there was “a nasty sea on”. With all control lost IONE drifted ashore on the northeastern side of the Tamar Pass off Tamar point. Passengers and crew abandoned ship before she struck land and got ashore on a small bight to the north of the Pass. Nothing was saved. All they had left were the clothes they stood in. By the 10th December, the IONE had disappeared, every piece of it having been carried out to sea by the tide running through the pass. Later, Falkland Islanders held a ‘public subscription’ to raise money for the survivors who had lost everything.
