SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

 

The Salvage of the SS Great Britain
Falkland Islands 1969 - 1970

File number: ssba0312

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The huge main mast - over 20 tons and about 95 feet in total length - was cut down with a chain saw some three feet above the weather deck level.

 

 

 

 

 


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