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The Salvage of the Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1969

File number: ssab0112

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

In 1969, as part of a BBC film sequence divers from the Falkland Islands and the HMS Endurance raised the huge bowsprit. The wood had rotted so the bowsprit had fallen off some years earlier. Local memories had indicated the position.

 

 

 

 

 

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