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The Salvage of the Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1970

File number: ssba0190

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

Divers working on the starboard crack, and holes that were created when the ship was scuttled in 1937. They patched the holes with plywood, secured the sheets with bolts and sealed them on the inside with hydraulic cement.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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