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Reportage
Where there is more to the story than the picture....or sometimes
where there ought to be more to the story than there is...
The maritime history of the Falkland Islands is long, complicated
and not a little fraught. Nothing has ever been quite as it seems
on so many aspects. As an outpost in open waters many ships
have struggled to safe harbour after being damaged elsewhere
and others have foundered in poor weather on the very rocky
shores the islands present. Some cultures recover the broken
remnants of shipping, but the culture in the Falkland Islands
has been to use the vessel for storage or workshops until they
can no longer hold water and then to let their memory linger with
them as they disintegrate until they are finally taken by the sea.
Around the coast literally hundreds of wrecks have been left.
This tug, Samson, did a stalwart job helping ailing ships until
breaking her own moorings in 1945 and becoming another feature
in Whalebone Cove, Stanley alongside the Lady Elizabeth
