SABINO
SABINO
Years Active: 1862-1891
Vessel Type: 3-masted wooden Barque
Barque
Nationality: Norwegian
Condemned as unseaworthy in 1891. Turned into a hulk by the Falkland Islands Company. After 19 years sold to a whaling Company. Wrecked in New Island.
Main Use:
Cargo
Years Active:
1862-1891
Power:
Sail
Built:
1862
Size:
1,265 Gross, 1,224 Net tons
56.57 x 11.06 x 7.25 metres
(length, breadth, depth) metres
Design/Build:
Larrabee at Bath, Maine, USA for G. F. Patten & Sons
Main Use: Cargo
Built: 1862
Power: Sail
Design/Build: Larrabee at Bath, Maine, USA for G. F. Patten & Sons
Size: 1,265 Gross, 1,224 Net tons
Dimensions: 56.57 x 11.06 x 7.25 metres
Arrived in the Falklands, on 22nd May 1891, after a long voyage through a series of heavy gales, leaking so badly “she could not be kept clear of water”. Eventually docked in Stanley where she was condemned as unseaworthy. SABINO was sold at Public Auction for £900 and her cargo of coal for £2,000, both to the Falkland Islands Company, who converted her into a hulk. She was sold again in 1910 to Christian Salvesen’s New Island Whaling Company and was towed to New Island by two whale catchers, arriving there on 21st August 1910. Sometime thereafter she was wrecked. On 28th November 1910, in a despatch to London, the Falkland Islands Company’s Stanley manager wrote: “Some accounts state that she broke away from her moorings, others state she was towed and scuttled, both at what is now curiously named Sabina Point.”
Arrived in the Falklands, on 22nd May 1891, after a long voyage through a series of heavy gales, leaking so badly “she could not be kept clear of water”. Eventually docked in Stanley where she was condemned as unseaworthy. SABINO was sold at Public Auction for £900 and her cargo of coal for £2,000, both to the Falkland Islands Company, who converted her into a hulk. She was sold again in 1910 to Christian Salvesen’s New Island Whaling Company and was towed to New Island by two whale catchers, arriving there on 21st August 1910. Sometime thereafter she was wrecked. On 28th November 1910, in a despatch to London, the Falkland Islands Company’s Stanley manager wrote: “Some accounts state that she broke away from her moorings, others state she was towed and scuttled, both at what is now curiously named Sabina Point.”
