MALVINA
MALVINA
Years Active: 1849-1875
Vessel Type: 2-masted wooden Schooner
Schooner
Nationality: Falkland Islands
A renowned Falklands schooner with a history of rescues and salvage, abandoned as “unseaworthy” in Choeseul Sound, East Falkland after a gale in 1875.
Main Use:
Farm Settlement Support
Years Active:
1849-1875
Power:
Sail
Built:
1849
Size:
19.99 Gross and Net tons
12.10 x 3.81 x 1.80 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Stanley, Falkland Islands
Main Use: Farm Settlement Support
Built: 1849
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Stanley, Falkland Islands
Size: 19.99 Gross and Net tons
Dimensions: 12.10 x 3.81 x 1.80 metres
The MALVINA was a renowned Falklands schooner which was involved in a number of crew rescues and salvages during a career lasting more than a quarter of a century. Between 1849 and1864, she was engaged in coastal and sealing work, but after 1864 she became a farm support vessel for her then owner John Markham Dean’s settlements. During her early years as a sealer, she was regularly rescuing shipwrecked sailors and salvaging wrecks. To name but a few: the American Brig GEORGE BUTZ in 1855; the American whaling Schooner FLYING CLOUD in 1856; the Scottish full-rigged COLONSAY in 1860; the Hamburg Barque HORATIO in 1860; the Chilean Barque COQUIMBANA in 1867. There is uncertainty about how she ended her days. According to the Register of Shipping she was “Abandoned in Mare Harbour, Choiseul Sound, during a gale, receiving such damage that her owner considered her to be too unseaworthy to warrant repairs. Certificate of Registry lost with the vessel. Registry closed 29th June 1875.”
The MALVINA was a renowned Falklands schooner which was involved in a number of crew rescues and salvages during a career lasting more than a quarter of a century. Between 1849 and1864, she was engaged in coastal and sealing work, but after 1864 she became a farm support vessel for her then owner John Markham Dean’s settlements. During her early years as a sealer, she was regularly rescuing shipwrecked sailors and salvaging wrecks. To name but a few: the American Brig GEORGE BUTZ in 1855; the American whaling Schooner FLYING CLOUD in 1856; the Scottish full-rigged COLONSAY in 1860; the Hamburg Barque HORATIO in 1860; the Chilean Barque COQUIMBANA in 1867. There is uncertainty about how she ended her days. According to the Register of Shipping she was “Abandoned in Mare Harbour, Choiseul Sound, during a gale, receiving such damage that her owner considered her to be too unseaworthy to warrant repairs. Certificate of Registry lost with the vessel. Registry closed 29th June 1875.”
