(A 1900 ticket for the Lady Elizabeth)
The Lady Elizabeth, pictured above in 1890, was built in England in 1879 as a replacement for a similar iron barque vessel of the same name which sunk off the coast of western Australia.
In 1913, while the Lady Liz' was being towed into Stanley for repairs, it hit a rock resulting in a six foot hole in the hull. The ship was quickly deemed as not sea worthy and condemned. It was sold as a coal hulk and remained moored in Port Stanley Harbour until a fierce storm broke its mooring and the ship drifted away, ending up in its' present location of Whale Bone Cove in Stanley Harbour.
(Falkland Islands Tourism Board) 
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