PERU
PERU
Vessel Type: 3-Masted Full-Rigged Ship
Full-rigged
Nationality: Italian
Wrecked in Port Albemarle, West Falkland. Crew and passengers saved but stranded without food for weeks before eventual rescue and partial salvage.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
Power:
Sail
Built:
Size:
1,100 Net tons
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Main Use: Cargo
Power: Sail
Size: 1,100 Net tons
News of the loss of PERU, but no details of how she was lost, broke when the Falklands schooner, FAIRY, arrived in Stanley carrying her passengers and crew on 9th May 1868. According to the Falkland Islands Company’s manager: “The Italian ship PERU 1,100 tons was wrecked in Port Albemarle in the middle of last month. The local Schooner FAIRY found the crew ashore, most of them reduced to eating grass and whatever they could catch. The FAIRY’s master, being busy with oil and other ventures, the Italian master offered them the wreck as recompense for loss of time incurred, in bringing himself and crew into Stanley. The PERU is quite broken up, I understand, and has only as ballast a few slabs of marble and cases of fine Italian wine, but I think her bolts, sheathing, rigging if it can be recovered, chain, spars, will about pay expenses.” The PERU’s passengers and crew left for Montevideo on 19th May and the FAIRY brought 40 tons of salvage from the wreck into Stanley on 12th July 1868.
News of the loss of PERU, but no details of how she was lost, broke when the Falklands schooner, FAIRY, arrived in Stanley carrying her passengers and crew on 9th May 1868. According to the Falkland Islands Company’s manager: “The Italian ship PERU 1,100 tons was wrecked in Port Albemarle in the middle of last month. The local Schooner FAIRY found the crew ashore, most of them reduced to eating grass and whatever they could catch. The FAIRY’s master, being busy with oil and other ventures, the Italian master offered them the wreck as recompense for loss of time incurred, in bringing himself and crew into Stanley. The PERU is quite broken up, I understand, and has only as ballast a few slabs of marble and cases of fine Italian wine, but I think her bolts, sheathing, rigging if it can be recovered, chain, spars, will about pay expenses.” The PERU’s passengers and crew left for Montevideo on 19th May and the FAIRY brought 40 tons of salvage from the wreck into Stanley on 12th July 1868.
