Calling in Falkland islands


Calling in Falkland islands

Falkland (Spanish: Islas Malvinas ; French iles Malouines) archpelago is composed of West Falkland and East Falkland, separated bu Falkland Sound (and 776 smaller islands).

In 1592, the English explorer John Davis on board Desire gave them the name "Southern Islands of Davis". In 1690, John Strong, on board WELFARE, named them Falkland Islands, after lord Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland (a small town in the southeast of Scotland in the Fife).

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville visited them in 1764 and named them "îles Malouines" according to the name of the inhabitants of Saint-Malo, a Britanny port from where the first permanent settlers of these islands came. In 1767, Bougainville ceded the islands to the Spanish on the order of the king of France.

However, British landed in 1766 and settled in a port named Port-Egmont. A few years later after a landing, the islands go in 1770 under Spanish sovereignty until 1776. After the independence of Argentina in 1816, on 6 November 1820, the American colonel in the service of the United Provinces of the River Plate, David Jewett, commander of frigate‍ HEROINA, takes possession of the Falkland Islands on behalf of the Government of United Provinces. On 15 June 1826, Argentina established a colony at Puerto Soledad.

After HMS Beagle arrival, United Kingdom is able to control archipelago from 1833, and to instal gradually settlers of British origin. .

In 1842, brick HEBE carried a detachment as well as mail from England from 1842 to 1846, a mission then entrusted to the barque NAUTILUS. Stanley becomes the capital of the archipelago in July 1845. The city is named in honour of Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for War and the British Colonies at the time. Hebe is used to carry people and materials from Port Louis to Port Stanley.

In January 1851 Falkland Islands Company is founded and brigantine AMELIA, arrived for the first time on 1st July 1852, carries mail from 1852 to 1854. On 31 July 1854, a 75 tons schooner, FAIRY, arrives in Stanley and is used to carry mail between 1857 and 1861 to and from Montevideo.

FOAM, a 88 tonns schooner, eis bought in 1863 by the local governmant for the mail betwwen the islands and Montevideo. She sails until 1872 on 59 trips.

At the end of 19th century, arrive the first steamers

German company Deutsche Dampfschiffahrt Gesellschaft Kosmos got the mail contract from 1880 to 1900 with MEMPHIS

Pacific Steam Navigation Company got the mail contract from 1900 to 1917 and the ships call in Port Stanley during connections with Valparaiso (Chile) or Callao (Peru)
In the night of 12 November 1912, ORAVIA, built in 1897 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, wrecked on Billy Rock. Passengers are saved by locaul ships no lifef was lost. The try to tug the steamer were unsuccessfull.

Built in 1906 in Cardiff, FALKLAND arrives at Port Stanley on 5 February 1914. She carries mail and freight until 1934.
Chartered by the Falkland Islands Company to A’S Tonsberg Hvalfangeri Company in 1924, FLEURUS ensures the service of dependencies and Montevideo; she leaves the service in 1933.

Launched in 1931 under the name of LAFONIA, the cargo ship FITZROY change of name in 1936 with the arrival of a new LAFONIA; she carried mail and freight between the islands, Montevideo, and South Georgia until 1957. She was converted to burn oil fuel and her hull was lengthened, increasing her cargo carrying capacity, after having serve during operation Tabarin in 1943-44.
The steamer LAFONIA was acquired by the Falkland Islands Company in 1936 to transport freight and mail from Montevideo and Punta Arenas with occasional trips to Brazil. Requisitioned in 1941, she sinks in the North Sea during a collision.

Passenger/cargo vessel DARWIN replaces FITZROY in the monthly service between islands and Montevideo

After the war, the population increases. The connection with the United Kingdom requires a larger fleet. The cargo MERAK-N, long of 64 m, is one of the 6 ships chartered by the company of the islands. A.E.S. (short for the name of its owner A.E. Sørensen) is 78 m long and carries 18 passengers at 13½ knots. She sinked in 1981 in Barcelona.

The Falkland Islands are the last port of call for some ships. .

WAVERTREE, a full-rigged ship of 1885 was dismated off Cape Horn and barely reached the Falkland Islands. Rather than redesigning the ship, owners sold her to use as a floating warehouse. Today she is the largest wrought iron sailing boat afloat, at South Street Seaport Museum of New York
CHARLES COOPER, wooden full-rigged ship of 1856, the hull weakened after a decade of travel, is damaged off Cape Horn. She reached the nearest refuge, the Falkland Islands, where she will be used as a floating warehouse.

Clipper SNOW SQUALL built in 1851, sailed for the last voyage from New York on 2 January 1864 with 14 crews bound for San Francisco. Became becalmed east of Cape Horn, she runs aground in Le Maire Strait on 24 February. Refloated, she arrives on 2 March 1864, at Port Stanley. The repair being too expensive, she is condemned. .
JHELUM leaves Cardiff on 26 June 1869 with a cargo of coal for Montevideo and Rosario, Argentina. On 13 July 1870, she left Callao with a load of nitrate for Dunkirk. But turns towards Port Stanley due to water inflows. declared unseaworthy. JHELUM ended her days as a floating warehouse for wool. .

Runic was a cargo built in 1889 to carry livestock and passengers, owned by White Star Line. After several change of owner, named IMO she collided in Halifax harbour with Mont-Blanc, a French ship fully loaded with a highly volatile cargo of wartime explosives. 1946 people were killed in the explosion ; SS IMO was repaired and returned to service in 1918, renamed Guevernoren but she ran aground on the rocks and cannot be saved.

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VICAR of BRAY était une barque construite à Whitehaven en 1841. Son épave représente le seul exemple restant des navires qui ont approvisionné San Francisco pendant la ruée vers l’or de 1849.

The Falkland Islands serve as a refuge or a call near Cape Horn

At the beginning of the 1970s, two French sailors, Jérôme Poncet and Gérard Janichon, leave La Rochelle to sail around the world on a 10 m wood sailing boat, DAMIEN. Jérôme Poncet, decided to continue the adventure at sea with DAMIEN II, more solid and larger, designed by the architect Michel Joubert. He will then leave for Antarctica before setting in the Falkland Islands.
Aboard POLONEZ, Krzysztof Baranowski, three weeks after having finished the OSTAR '72 race, from Plymouth to Newport, starts a solo tour of the world, passing through the Horn and the Falklands.

In the Falkland Islands, fishing is the main activity (with sheep farming)
Different squid species represent 75% of the fishery, with cod and 18 fishing vessels are registered in the Falkland Islands in 2025.

The ships use the jigger technique: the ships operate by deploying some lines, with multi-pronged lures or baited hooks. The lines are attached to the jigger winches. The winches/jigging machines make the lures move in a jerky and vertical manner in the water column, which simulates the realistic movement of the prey of the targeted species. The jiggers are equipped with powerful lights used to attract squid to the surface

Reffer to https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/education/voicesofthebay/pdfs/linevessels.pdf

FALKLANDS PROTECTOR is a former stern-trawler built in 1968 in Gdansk, owned in 1974 by the by the English Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and used from 1990 to 1993 as fishing patrol vessel.

The P&O ferry NORLAND 173,3 m long , 26290 t is built in 1974 at Weser yards in Bremerhaven for 881 passengers at a speed of 18.5 knots. As cruise liners CANBERRA and UGANDA , she is requisitioned by the Royal Navy during Falkland war.

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Falkland (Spanish: Islas Malvinas ; French iles Malouines) archpelago is composed of West Falkland and East Falkland, separated bu Falkland Sound (and 776 smaller islands).

In 1592, the English explorer John Davis on board Desire gave them the name "Southern Islands of Davis". In 1690, John Strong, on board WELFARE, named them Falkland Islands, after lord Anthony Cary, 5th Viscount of Falkland (a small town in the southeast of Scotland in the Fife).

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville visited them in 1764 and named them "îles Malouines" according to the name of the inhabitants of Saint-Malo, a Britanny port from where the first permanent settlers of these islands came. In 1767, Bougainville ceded the islands to the Spanish on the order of the king of France.

However, British landed in 1766 and settled in a port named Port-Egmont. A few years later after a landing, the islands go in 1770 under Spanish sovereignty until 1776. After the independence of Argentina in 1816, on 6 November 1820, the American colonel in the service of the United Provinces of the River Plate, David Jewett, commander of frigate‍ HEROINA, takes possession of the Falkland Islands on behalf of the Government of United Provinces. On 15 June 1826, Argentina established a colony at Puerto Soledad.

After HMS Beagle arrival, United Kingdom is able to control archipelago from 1833, and to instal gradually settlers of British origin. .

In 1842, brick HEBE carried a detachment as well as mail from England from 1842 to 1846, a mission then entrusted to the barque NAUTILUS. Stanley becomes the capital of the archipelago in July 1845. The city is named in honour of Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for War and the British Colonies at the time. Hebe is used to carry people and materials from Port Louis to Port Stanley.

In January 1851 Falkland Islands Company is founded and brigantine AMELIA, arrived for the first time on 1st July 1852, carries mail from 1852 to 1854. On 31 July 1854, a 75 tons schooner, FAIRY, arrives in Stanley and is used to carry mail between 1857 and 1861 to and from Montevideo.

FOAM, a 88 tonns schooner, eis bought in 1863 by the local governmant for the mail betwwen the islands and Montevideo. She sails until 1872 on 59 trips.

At the end of 19th century, arrive the first steamers
German company Deutsche Dampfschiffahrt Gesellschaft Kosmos got the mail contract from 1880 to 1900 with MEMPHIS

Pacific Steam Navigation Company got the mail contract from 1900 to 1917 and the ships call in Port Stanley during connections with Valparaiso (Chile) or Callao (Peru) In the night of 12 November 1912, ORAVIA, built in 1897 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, wrecked on Billy Rock. Passengers are saved by locaul ships no lifef was lost. The try to tug the steamer were unsuccessfull.

Built in 1906 in Cardiff, FALKLAND arrives at Port Stanley on 5 February 1914. She carries mail and freight until 1934. Chartered by the Falkland Islands Company to A’S Tonsberg Hvalfangeri Company in 1924, FLEURUS ensures the service of dependencies and Montevideo; she leaves the service in 1933.

Launched in 1931 under the name of LAFONIA, the cargo ship FITZROY change of name in 1936 with the arrival of a new LAFONIA; she carried mail and freight between the islands, Montevideo, and South Georgia until 1957. She was converted to burn oil fuel and her hull was lengthened, increasing her cargo carrying capacity, after having serve during operation Tabarin in 1943-44. The steamer LAFONIA was acquired by the Falkland Islands Company in 1936 to transport freight and mail from Montevideo and Punta Arenas with occasional trips to Brazil. Requisitioned in 1941, she sinks in the North Sea during a collision.

Passenger/cargo vessel DARWIN replaces FITZROY in the monthly service between islands and Montevideo

After the war, the population increases. The connection with the United Kingdom requires a larger fleet. The cargo MERAK-N, long of 64 m, is one of the 6 ships chartered by the company of the islands. A.E.S. (short for the name of its owner A.E. Sørensen) is 78 m long and carries 18 passengers at 13½ knots. She sinked in 1981 in Barcelona.

The Falkland Islands are the last port of call for some ships. .
WAVERTREE, a full-rigged ship of 1885 was dismated off Cape Horn and barely reached the Falkland Islands. Rather than redesigning the ship, owners sold her to use as a floating warehouse. Today she is the largest wrought iron sailing boat afloat, at South Street Seaport Museum of New York CHARLES COOPER, wooden full-rigged ship of 1856, the hull weakened after a decade of travel, is damaged off Cape Horn. She reached the nearest refuge, the Falkland Islands, where she will be used as a floating warehouse.

Clipper SNOW SQUALL built in 1851, sailed for the last voyage from New York on 2 January 1864 with 14 crews bound for San Francisco. Became becalmed east of Cape Horn, she runs aground in Le Maire Strait on 24 February. Refloated, she arrives on 2 March 1864, at Port Stanley. The repair being too expensive, she is condemned. . JHELUM leaves Cardiff on 26 June 1869 with a cargo of coal for Montevideo and Rosario, Argentina. On 13 July 1870, she left Callao with a load of nitrate for Dunkirk. But turns towards Port Stanley due to water inflows. declared unseaworthy. JHELUM ended her days as a floating warehouse for wool. .

Runic was a cargo built in 1889 to carry livestock and passengers, owned by White Star Line. After several change of owner, named IMO she collided in Halifax harbour with Mont-Blanc, a French ship fully loaded with a highly volatile cargo of wartime explosives. 1946 people were killed in the explosion ; SS IMO was repaired and returned to service in 1918, renamed Guevernoren but she ran aground on the rocks and cannot be saved.
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VICAR of BRAY était une barque construite à Whitehaven en 1841. Son épave représente le seul exemple restant des navires qui ont approvisionné San Francisco pendant la ruée vers l’or de 1849.

The Falkland Islands serve as a refuge or a call near Cape Horn
At the beginning of the 1970s, two French sailors, Jérôme Poncet and Gérard Janichon, leave La Rochelle to sail around the world on a 10 m wood sailing boat, DAMIEN. Jérôme Poncet, decided to continue the adventure at sea with DAMIEN II, more solid and larger, designed by the architect Michel Joubert. He will then leave for Antarctica before setting in the Falkland Islands. Aboard POLONEZ, Krzysztof Baranowski, three weeks after having finished the OSTAR '72 race, from Plymouth to Newport, starts a solo tour of the world, passing through the Horn and the Falklands.

In the Falkland Islands, fishing is the main activity (with sheep farming) Different squid species represent 75% of the fishery, with cod and 18 fishing vessels are registered in the Falkland Islands in 2025.
The ships use the jigger technique: the ships operate by deploying some lines, with multi-pronged lures or baited hooks. The lines are attached to the jigger winches. The winches/jigging machines make the lures move in a jerky and vertical manner in the water column, which simulates the realistic movement of the prey of the targeted species. The jiggers are equipped with powerful lights used to attract squid to the surface Reffer to https://nmssanctuaries.blob.core.windows.net/sanctuaries-prod/media/archive/education/voicesofthebay/pdfs/linevessels.pdf

FALKLANDS PROTECTOR is a former stern-trawler built in 1968 in Gdansk, owned in 1974 by the by the English Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and used from 1990 to 1993 as fishing patrol vessel.

The P&O ferry NORLAND 173,3 m long , 26290 t is built in 1974 at Weser yards in Bremerhaven for 881 passengers at a speed of 18.5 knots. As cruise liners CANBERRA and UGANDA , she is requisitioned by the Royal Navy during Falkland war.

Other pages on the site Ships requisitioned for war Liners in the wars Fishing vessels Fishing vessels