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The Salvage of the Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1970

File number: ssba0348

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

Willie Bowles, the Falkland Island carpenter largely responsible for cutting down the masts, shows that the main mast some four feet in diameter was made up of 4 complete trees. The masts were some of the largest sailing masts ever made, each weighing about 20 tons and about 95 feet in total length.

 

 

 

 
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