KARINA KIRSTEN
KARINA KIRSTEN
Years Active: 1874-1928
Vessel Type: Wooden Ketch
Ketch
Nationality: Falkland Islands
After sinking near Pebble Island in the Falklands, the KARINA KIRSTEN was refloated as a hulk before being used as a breakwater and broken up in 1933.
Main Use:
Farm Settlement Support
Years Active:
1874-1928
Power:
Sail
Built:
1874
Size:
75 Gross, 61 Net tons
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
France
Main Use: Farm Settlement Support
Built: 1874
Power: Sail
Design/Build: France
Size: 75 Gross, 61 Net tons
The KARINA KIRSTEN, named after the daughter of her Welsh owner, arrived in the Falkland Islands from Cardiff carrying a general cargo and passengers on 11th October 1911. Docking in Stanley, local folklore has it that some her cargo was building materials for a new Town Hall. She left Stanley on or about 23rd November bound for Pebble Island, where she became a settlement support vessel carrying passengers and wool bales. In April 1928 she sank “under a heavy load” in Richard Harbour near Pebble Island. She was refloated a month later and beached on a small tussac island now named Karina Kirsten island. Sometime in 1933 the KARINA KIRSTEN was moved and beached as a breakwater near Pebble Island Settlement, where she was broken up.
The KARINA KIRSTEN, named after the daughter of her Welsh owner, arrived in the Falkland Islands from Cardiff carrying a general cargo and passengers on 11th October 1911. Docking in Stanley, local folklore has it that some her cargo was building materials for a new Town Hall. She left Stanley on or about 23rd November bound for Pebble Island, where she became a settlement support vessel carrying passengers and wool bales. In April 1928 she sank “under a heavy load” in Richard Harbour near Pebble Island. She was refloated a month later and beached on a small tussac island now named Karina Kirsten island. Sometime in 1933 the KARINA KIRSTEN was moved and beached as a breakwater near Pebble Island Settlement, where she was broken up.
