SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

 

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

File number: ssba0447

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The half-submerged pontoon Mulus III with the wooden blocks on which the hulk would sit still showing above the water line. The pontoon had to be submerged a second time in a slightly different position to make allowance for the draught of the ship which was greater than first estimated.

 

 

 

 

 


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