The shipwreck place of the three-masted sailboat Bayard

 shipwreck, interesting place

In June 1911, the sailing cargo ship Bayard (built in 1864, with a displacement of 1,380 gross tons) was washed up by a storm on the coast of South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, almost on the border of the Antarctic zone.

The sailboat was used as a cargo and passenger vessel until the end of the 19th century. Not far from the place where the Titanic died in 1912, on May 6, 1885, the Bayard also collided with an iceberg — it suffered severe damage to the bow, lost the bowsprit, and leaked heavily, but nevertheless reached the port of Saint Pierre and Miquelon on May 23, 1885.
Later he was used as a coal miner at the South Georgia whaling station. On June 6, 1911, the Bayard was torn from her anchor at the coal pier in Ocean Harbor and ran aground in the southern part of the bay, where she still remains.

Weather conditions and structural strength of the vessel allowed it to survive to the present day, the hull is used as a breeding ground for blue-eyed cormorants.