This is a very old draw. I make this illustration in 1993: my last entirelly hand-maked work (pencil and ink).
San Telmo was a beauty spanish ship of line, 74 gun class. Was launch in El Ferrol, in 1788. In 1819, Fernando VII king send a little expedition to Peru. When spanish ships turn Hornos Cape, a storm pusch San Telmo to South. Months later, the british seaman William Smith discover Livingston Island (nearby Antartic peninsula) and find the remains to "a spanish 74 gun ship" (williams ship's log). No survivals, no bodies.
In deaths homage, british cartograps named the nearby island to Saint Elmo (a little phonetic mistake