The Charles Cooper - Port Stanley Harbour

Photograph taken March 1987

The Charles Cooper, an American wooden merchant ship, she was bound from Philadelphia to Frisco with coal,and arrived at the Falklands, leaky - 92 days out. She was condemned and hulked in 1886, then used as a pierhead store on West jetty until the 1960s.

South Street Seaport Museum of New York bought her In 1968 - hoping to repatriate her. The cost of this was found to be too great. The Cooper was was then returned to Falklands ownership and given into the care of the Falklands Museum in Stanley.

Gradually deteriorating, under attack from the elements and marine pests, what remained has been removed from the harbour by the museum, and is undergoing preservation measures.