22-06-2020, 07:55 AM
(22-06-2020, 01:10 AM)henrypal Wrote: Playa de los Ingleses.Great story - I wasn't aware of that. Initially there were nearly 300 on board - only 10 of them made their way eventually, after 5 years, back to England - one of the survivors later became the grandfather of Lord Byron, the poet.
The old name of the beach had its origin in the odyssey lived by a group of British sailors in the mid-17th century, members of the Admiral Anson fleet, whose country was fighting in those days with the Spanish Empire in the so-called Seat War . The sailors were wrecked with the "HMS Wager" frigate near Chiloé, but managed to build a small sloop, "Speedwell", with the wreckage of the ship and with it to fold Cabo Hornos.
After several incidents, eight of them were abandoned in what is believed to be the northern part of "Cabo Corrientes", that is, Playa de los Ingleses. Two were killed by a party of Aborigines, four ended up as prisoners of the Spanish in Buenos Aires, and the remaining two were presumably taken as captives of the Tehuelches to Patagonia.
Reading up on it, the ship, HMS Wager, was shipwrecked about halfway between the island of Chiloé and Punta Arenas - Chiloé is very close to Puerto Montt and we spent time on Chiloé too - they have a petrified forest on the island and I have still have some book-ends made from a section of a fossilised tree from there...
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