Introduction

With shipping the main form of transport of goods and people, jetties and slipways were a necessity around the Falkland Islands.

Public Jetty 1887 - FIC Collection, JCNA

The Government file system was started post World War I; previous to this all correspondence was kept in manuscript books.  The following Government files contain information on jetties and slipways. 

Government Files

SHI-JET-1-1. Question of Government Wharf accomodation and copy of special grant by which FIC obtained theirs.pdf539.12 KB

SHI-JET-1-2. Destruction of lamp post on Public Jetty by FI Cos tug Samson.pdf238.36 KB

SHI-JET-1-3. Colonial Engineer. Submits estimate for construction of slipway in Stanley Harbour.pdf214.04 KB

SHI-JET-1-4. Proposed slipway to be constructed at Stanley.pdf4.75 MB

SHI-JET-1-5. Harbour Master. Reports condition of Watering Jetty.pdf194.35 KB

SHI-JET-1-6. Facilities for landing at and moving boats at Tussac islands at entrance to Port William.pdf170.79 KB

SHI-JET-1-7. Harbour Master. Recommends that a gate be placed across the Government Dockyard Jetty.pdf195.4 KB

SHI-JET-1-8. Manager FIC. Asks permisson to take soundings in Stanley Harbour for purpose of ascertaining suitable site for a slipway.pdf218.83 KB

SHI-JET-1-9. Harbour Master. Report on condition of Dockyard Jetty Derrick Dockyard Hulk.pdf209.98 KB 

SHI-JET-1-10. Falkland Islands Co enquire if Col. Govt. desire to purchase jetty and hulk at Sulivan House.pdf1.23 MB

SHI-JET-1-11. Admiralty Hydrographer requests that Oiling Jetty at the Camber be inserted on Admiralty Chart.pdf2.99 MB

SHI-JET-1-12. Indent for materials for repair of Dockyard Jetty.pdf6.43 MB

SHI-JET-1-13. Acting Harbour Master. Suggested concrete ways for Dockyard Slip.pdf1.53 MB

SHI-JET-1-14. Life saving appliances on jetties in Stanley Harbour.pdf610.88 KB

SHI-JET-1-15. Precautions against accidents on Dockyard Jetty and Pier.pdf379.35 KB

SHI-JET-1-16. Repairs of Public Jetty.pdf3.46 MB

SHI-JET-1-17. Mr Hubert Cobb. Proposal that Government should contribute towards erecting new jetty at Fox Bay West Falkland.pdf4.61 MB

SHI-JET-1-18. Proposed construction of railing on the Public Jetty.pdf883.78 KB

SHI-JET-1-19. Damage to Public Jetty by Whale Catcher.pdf155.05 KB

SHI-JET-1-20. Proposed extension to boat shed and slipway.pdf452.01 KB

SHI-JET-1-21. Mr A G Barton. Requests the assistance of Colonial Engineer in the matter of the erection of a new jetty at Pebble Island.pdf1.54 MB

SHI-JET-1-22. Scale of charges for use of Govt slipway.pdf2.4 MB

SHI-JET-1-23. Miss Frances Kirwan. Request that the lamp at the head of the public jetty be kept alight throughout the night.pdf428.64 KB

SHI-JET-1-24. Proposed demolition of Govt House jetty.pdf275.94 KB

SHI-JET-1-25. Mr J S Barnes. Application to use portion of foreshore for beaching of small craft.pdf1.53 MB

SHI-JET-1-26. Harbour Master. Disposal of kelp washed up on Govt slipway.pdf428.52 KB

SHI-JET-1-27. Laying of concrete between rails on the Government Jetty.pdf343.07 KB

SHI-JET-1-28. Survey on jetty at the Moro by Mr G L Challen General Foreman of Works.pdf407.78 KB

SHI-JET-1-29. W J Hutchinson. Applies for permission to rebuild and extend old jetty known as Redmanns Redmonds Jetty.pdf365.07 KB

SHI-JET-1-30. Damage to Govt Jetty caused by RRS William Scoresby.pdf219.17 KB

SHI-JET-2-1. Bathing from the Government Jetty.pdf429.59 KB

SHI-JET-2-2. Damage to Public Jetty.pdf2.04 MB

SHI-JET-2-3. Government Jetty. Lighting arrangements.pdf193.73 KB

SHI-JET-2-4. Public Jetty. Harbour Master reports on.pdf1.12 MB

SHI-JET-2-5. Repairs to Govt Slipway.pdf342.93 KB

SHI-JET-2-6. Mr G Perry. Application to use portion of foreshore for the laying up of small craft.pdf608.67 KB

SHI-JET-2-7. Application to erect davits on Sulivan Jetty.pdf1.48 MB

SHI-JET-2-8. Harbour Master. Requests permission to place No Admittance notices on dockyard gates.pdf337.53 KB

SHI-JET-2-9. Installation of electric light on Public Jetty.pdf824.32 KB

SHI-JET-2-10. Mr Alex Steel requests permission to erect davits on old Watering Jetty.pdf188.5 KB

SHI-JET-2-11. Proposed demolition of sanitary and water jetties.pdf144.25 KB

SHI-JET-2-12. Stanley Jetties. Government Jetty and Public Jetty.pdf5.78 MB

SHI-JET-2-13. Slipway.pdf433.11 KB

SHI-JET-2-14. Stanley Jetties - depth of water at.pdf687.76 KB

SHI-JET-2-15. Public Jetty - use of.pdf1.18 MB

SHI-JET-2-16. Stanley foreshore.pdf208.26 KB

SHI-JET-2-17. Jetties.pdf7.81 MB

SHI-JET-2-18. Fox Bay Village Jetty and Freight Rates.pdf2.81 MB

Maps and Plans

Bridges Jetties and Slipways.pdf6.03 MB 

Disclaimer

While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any omissions or errors in these records.

Copyright guide

Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes.  If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references.  For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.

Introduction

On 19 October 1843 Governor Moody reported “The Colony is divided into numerous Islands indented in every direction by deep arms of the seas; all conveyance will be by water, and the settlers will be nautical in their habits, they are so at present and it is natural they should always continue to be so though following pastoral pursuits in addition to sea going avocations.”

Not only were vessels needed for those who made their living by sealing and whaling around the Falkland Islands but with the isolation and inaccessibility of the Islands locally based vessels were essential to reach the outlying settlements and islands and also to maintain contact with the outside world. They were also vital for coming to the aid of the many disabled and sinking vessels which fell victim to the violent weather and seas of the South Atlantic.

These local vessels, which consisted of schooners, ketches, cutters and the like, were a mixture of condemned vessels and whale boats that had been fixed up or converted for the local interinsular and coasting trade, locally built cutters, ketches and schooners, ready-built second-hand overseas purchases and custom-builds.

Shipping information available in Volume E2, which is available under Government - Laws and Ordinances, includes the Charters of the Despatch (pg 45-54), Manney (pg 58-61), Page (pg 217-218) and Vigilante (pg 219 and 274); Protests of the Galen, Mary Gray, Christiana, Alonzo, and Strathisla.

These files are not a complete representation of the working vessels of the Falkland Islands but are some of those partly or fully researched by the Archives and will be added to from time to time.  For those local vessels which were eventually wrecked refer to Shipping - Casualties and Wrecks.

Also included in these files are visiting vessels.

General

E9 - Vice Admiralty Court Minute Book Dec 1866 to Feb 1882.pdf(7.02 MB)

Internal Research

Local Vessels

Nimrod, previously the Ernest, 1858 to 1950.pdf419.89 KB

Plym - 1903 to 1945.pdf765.72 KB

Visiting Vessels

Helena 1852.pdf112.32 KB

Hermine 1885.pdf267.45 KB

Tynemouth 1862.pdf(4.2 MB)

Government Files

 The Government file system was started post World War I; previous to this all correspondence was kept in manuscript books. 

Customs

SHI-CUS-1-1. Draft custom rules - confidential character of proceedings in Ex Co.pdf495.86 KB

SHI-CUS-1-2. Clearance of vessels at Fox Bay WF since resignation of late Magistrate Deputy Collector.pdf255.11 KB

SHI-CUS-1-3. Canadian Government to be kept informed of tariffs in force in Colonies and Protectorates.pdf351.15 KB

SHI-CUS-1-4. SS Falkland. Correspondence respecting entry of.pdf569.1 KB

SHI-CUS-1-5. Indent for Customs Officers Uniforms Stanley 1923-1924.pdf847.03 KB

SHI-CUS-1-6. Complaint regarding delay in entering and clearing ss Falkland.pdf1.23 MB

SHI-CUS-1-7. Mr A G Bennett Customs Officer behaviour of.pdf1.43 MB

SHI-CUS-1-8. Establishment of Contraband Control Service Base at Stanley.pdf4.12 MB

SHI-CUS-1-9. Issue to Capt D W Roberts of ss Lafonia of a packet licence.pdf1.89 MB

SHI-CUS-1-10. Free entry to England of Colonial produce. New tariff proposals introduced by Imperial Government February 1932.pdf1.53 MB

SHI-CUS-1-11. Customs supervision of foreign vessels whilst in the territorial waters of the Colony.pdf2.01 MB

SHI-CUS-1-12. Time of arrival of ships to be reported to the medical officer.pdf178.45 KB

SHI-CUS-1-13. Complaint regarding Custom House supervision of importations at Stanley.pdf2.31 MB

SHI-CUS-1-14. Duties of Customs Officer.pdf627.19 KB

SHI-CUS-1-15. Duties of staff of Treasury and Customs Department.pdf289 KB

SHI-CUS-1-16. Reorganisation of the Customs Department.pdf2 MB

SHI-CUS-1-17. Pratique.pdf5.99 MB

SHI-CUS-1-18. Customs Legislation. Alteration in prices consequent on above.pdf493.51 KB

SHI-CUS-1-19. Customs Department. Accommodations for.pdf1.7 MB

SHI-CUS-1-20. Import duty on matches.pdf287.84 KB

SHI-CUS-1-21. Bonded warehouse and customs shed.pdf2.09 MB

SHI-CUS-1-22. Uruguayan trans-shipment tax.pdf2.71 MB

 Maps and Plans

Vessels.pdf10.72 MB

Photographs

PC-046. Maud Sollis Album - shipping.pdf4.26 MB

Disclaimer

While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in these records.

Copyright guide

Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes.  If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references.  For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.

Introduction

The Falkland Islands was visited by and used for provisioning and as a base for many research expeditions to the Falkland Islands Dependencies and Antarctica.

Between 1839 and 1843 Captain James Clark Ross, in command of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror completed three voyages to the Antarctic continent, visiting the Falkland Islands April 1842.

The Challenger Expedition of 1872 to 1876, named after HMS Challenger the vessel which travelled 68,890 nautical miles surveying and exploring, called into the Falkland Islands 23 January 1876.

Operation Tabarin was established in 1944 as a means to safeguard the Falkland Islands from Japanese invasion and to ensure that enemy ships could not establish bases in British Antarctic territory.  Local vessels played an integral part in the set up and supply. At the end of World War II the three bases and their scientific work were transferred to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).  FIDS was renamed British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in 1962 and BAS ships would pass through the Falkland Islands on their way South.

Operation Taberin 1943 - crew of RRS William Scoresby in Montevideo.

Jimmy Halliday, Ernest Luxton, James Gleadall, Percy Stanley "Stan" Dixon, Mrs Marchesi, Ambassador & Mrs Millington-Drake, Captain Victor Marchesi

- photograph Luxton Collection, JCNA

Government Files

SHI-VES-8-5. Policy regarding employment of labour. Crew of mv John Biscoe.pdf2 MB

SHI-VES-9-9. Falkland Islanders forming part of crew of RY Penola.pdf4.41 MB

SHI-VES-13-15. Registration of Shackleton.pdf1.77 MB

SHI-VES-13-26. Behaviour of Officers and Crew of RSS William Scoresby.pdf3.32 MB

SHI-VES-13-27. Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Horley RN Navigating Officer RSS William Scoresby - Question of termination of engagement.pdf1.94 MB

Log Books and Crew Agreements

ss Fitzroy

SHI-LOG-FI-1-13. Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 11 January 1944 to 15 July 1944 Operation Tabarin Stanley to Montevideo and Punta Arenas return.pdf 5.19MB

SHI-LOG-FI-1-14. Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 15 July 1944 to 30 December 1944 Stanley to Montevideo return.pdf4.46 MB

SHI-LOG-FI-1-15. Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 30 December 1944 to 21 September 1945 Stanley to Punta Arenas and Montevideo return Operation Taberin support.pdf3.50 MB

mv John Biscoe

SHI-LOG-JO-1 Agreement and List of the Crew - 26 April 1948 to 1 May 1949.pdf 1.53MB

SHI-LOG-JO-2 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 2 May 1949 to 28 April 1950.pdf3.42 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-3 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 28 April 1950 to 3 May 1951.pdf3.96 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-4 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 3 May 1951 to 10 June 1952.pdf3.28 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-5 Official Log Book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 10 June 1952 to 7 May 1953.pdf3.43 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-6. Official Log Book and Agreement and List of Crew - 7 May 1953 to 5 May 19540.pdf17.50 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-7. Official Log Book and Agreement and List of Crew - 5 May 1954 to 13 May 1955.pdf17.28 MB

SHI-LOG-JO-8. Official Log Book and Agreement and List of Crew - 13 May 1955 to 24 April 1956.pdf19.40 MB

mv John Biscoe II

SHI-LOG-JP-10 Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 17 April 1969 to 15 April 1970.pdf3.69 MB

SHI-LOG-JP-11 Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 15 April 1970 to 26 March 1971.pdf3.29 MB

SHI-LOG-JP-12 Official Log-book and Agreement and List of the Crew - 26 March 1971 to 2 April 1972.pdf3.29 MB

Disclaimer

While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in these records.

Copyright guide:

Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes. If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references. For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.

This database currently covers the period May 1889 to December 1946 and has been printed in alphabetical order. Information in this database has been taken from local periodicals and various spellings of names are generally recorded as written at the time.

The local periodicals held by the Jane Cameron National Archives commence with the Falkland Islands Magazine started May 1889 and continue through to current date. There are gaps in some of these collections. There are also periods when no local periodical was produced.

This database was originally started as a research aid for Archives staff and some extra information has been added by the Archives. Some entries have been checked against official registers and corrected. During World War I and World War II departure and arrival dates were not printed however sometimes peoples’ movements were printed without dates so approximate dates have been used. When looking up double-barrelled and hyphenated surnames check under both. Be aware of variations of spellings of surnames, especially foreign.

Shipping News - May 1889 to December 1946.pdf9.34 MB 

Disclaimer

While every effort has been taken to ensure accuracy the Jane Cameron National Archives does not accept responsibility for any errors or omissions in the transcribing of these records.

Copyright guide

Copies of government records may be used freely for private research and educational purposes. If material is to be used for commercial publication, exhibition or broadcast the written permission of the Jane Cameron National Archives must first be obtained. Whenever material from the Jane Cameron National Archives is reproduced in any form or in any medium, the user must acknowledge the Jane Cameron National Archives as the source and give all document references. For non-government records it is your responsibility as the user to ensure that copyright is not infringed and any infringement that does occur is your responsibility.