MAGALLANES

First arrived in Stanley on 11th February 1908 from Punta Arenas, Chile, carrying Kerosene. For the next five years MAGALLANES was kept busy visiting most Falkland Islands ports, carrying out supplies and mail and returning with hides and skins, eggs and tussac grass. Details from her logs give an idea of just how varied her activities were: on 23rd August 1910, she docks in Stanley with a shipwrecked crew from the Schooner HATTIE L M on board; on 1st November 1911, she arrives in Stanley carrying 15,000 eggs from Sea Lion Island, Bird Island and Beauchêne Island; 16th December 1914, she arrives at Bleaker Island with letters and news of a “Naval fight off the Falklands on Tuesday 8th December” – this was, of course the famous Battle of the Falklands when the Royal Navy destroyed ViceAdmiral von Spee’s German battle squadron. The details of MAGALLANES final voyage are unknown. She was lost in Low Bay on 18th February 1917.