Allen Gardiner (schooner)

He had died of starvation with the rest of his mission party at Spaniard Bay on the SE coast of the main island of Tierra del Fuego in 1852, after resupply was delayed.

The schooner was sailed to Keppel Island, Falklands, to support the missionary effort there and in Tierra del Fuego.

In 1858 Allen Gardiner was used to return a Yahgan family to Wulaia, and it brought others to Keppel Island to study with missionaries.

[1] When the Allen Gardiner failed to return to Keppel Island, Captain William Horton Smyley was sent to Tierra del Fuego in 1860 on the ship Nancy to investigate.

[1] He learned from the one survivor, the cook, that Captain Fell, four mates, two seamen, and the catechist, Garland Philips, were all killed by Yahgan while on shore on 6 November 1859.