There were many shipwrecks on the Crozet Islands. The British sealer, "Princess of Wales", sank in 1821, and the survivors spent two years on the islands. The "Strathmore" was wrecked in 1875. In 1887, the French "Tamaris" was wrecked and her crew stranded on Île des Cochons. They tied a note to the leg of an albatross, which was found seven months later in Fremantle, but the crew was never recovered. For some time the Royal Navy dispatched a ship every few years to look for stranded survivors. The steamship "Australasian" also checked for survivors en route to Australia.