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The Salvage of the Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1969

File number: ssab0032

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The Great Britain in Sparrow Cove in 1969. Her masts were some of the largest ever made for a sailing ship, each weighing about 20 tons, about 95 feet high and with a diameter of nearly four feet. These are the lower masts, the top masts and spars were removed soon after her arrival in Stanley harbour in 1886.

 

 
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