Rusted hull
Deep red.
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The Lady Elizabeth is a three-masted iron barque that lies partly beached in Whalebone Cove, at the eastern end of Stanley Harbour on East Falkland, about 4 km in a straight line east of the centre of Stanley. Still largely intact more than a century after her last voyage, she is one of the most photographed sights in the Falkland Islands. She was built in Sunderland, England, and launched in 1879. In December 1912 she left Vancouver for Mozambique with a cargo of timber, was battered by storms near Cape Horn and turned for Stanley for repairs, but struck a rock near Volunteer Point on the way in. Declared unseaworthy in 1913, she became a floating coal store in the harbour until her mooring lines broke in a storm in February 1936 and she drifted to where she rests today. Her rusted red hull, three masts and the remains of her deck stand out against the pale water and low hills, and her colours shift with the light, from bright on sunny days to moody under storm clouds. At high tide the water floods her lower hull. Seeing the wreck from the shore is free; it is reached on foot or by car along the harbour road from town. Do not try to board the ship, as her hull is badly rusted and unsafe, and bring a windproof jacket, as the shore is exposed.
Deep red.
Still standing.
Views over the cove.
Whalebone Cove, Stanley Harbour
No, the hull is rusted and unsafe.
She drifted into the cove in a 1936 storm.
