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The Salvage of the Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1970

File number: ssbw0015

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

A call to the Falkland Islanders to help with old mattresses brought an overwhelming response. The mattresses were needed to fill the starboard crack and all hands - here including Tony Morrison (left) the BBC film-maker, and Capt Malcolm MacLeod [RM]- helped bring them aboard.

 

 

 

 

 

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