Fue un barco Charteado por la FIC y operó en las Islas hasta 1974.
Built as a cargo vessel under yard No. 79 by Svendborg Skibsværft A/S at Svendborg, Denmark for A.E. Sørensen, Svendborg Denmark.
1957 Launched under the name A.E.S., abbreviation of the owner’s name.
Tonnage 994 gross, 449 net, 1,198 dwt., dim. 78.52 x 11.33 x 5.36m.
One 8 cyl. diesel engine, manufactured by Maschinen Fabrik KEIL A.G. , 1.530 hp., one screw, speed 13½ knots. Bunker capacity 254 tons diesel oil.
Accommodation to carry 18 passengers.
After delivery chartered by the
F@lkland Island Co, and she arrived for the first time in Puerto Argentino on 16 December 1957.
Thereafter for seventeen years she made four roundtrips between the Malvinas Islands and the U.K., with general cargo and mail.
The company could supply cargo for only three of these voyages so the fourth homeward cargo was from South America, often Brazilian timber.
April 1964 she stopped at Tristan da Cunha to deliver sheep from the Malvinas.
1974 Made her last voyage for the
F@lkland Island Co., and redelivered to owners.
June 1975 Sold to Astromar Navigation Corporation at Panama, renamed DESPO I.
1981 her tonnage given as 1,548 gross.
On 10 June 1981, at Barcelona, Spain, loaded with a cargo of tiles, general goods, empty bottles and paper, destined for Limassol and Beirut, she developed a list shortly after unberthing. This caused an entry of water into her hold, as a consequence of which she sank in the harbour.
Was declared a constructive total loss, the wreck lay in sunken condition for many months until being raised and taken to a shipbreaker yard for scrapping in April 1982.