Lady Elizabeth - Stanley Harbour

Lady Elizabeth, an iron barque of 1, 155 tons built by Robert Thompson Jr. of Southwick, Sunderland and launched on 4 June 1879. Damaged in a storm in 1912, she limped to Stanley where she grounded on Uraine Rock just off Volunteer Point, suffering a 6-foot (1.8 m) break in the hull and keel along with a 1-foot (30 cm) hole. She was deemed uneconomical to repair and used as a coal hulk until breaking loose in a storm and drifting to Whalebone cove, where she resides to this day, in the Falkland Islands

Barque Cove Deemed Drifting Falkland Grounded Hulk Hull Keel Launched Limped Loose Repair Resides Southwick Suffering Sunderland Tons Volunteer Whalebone

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