SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

 

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

File number: ssba0626

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The official 'Handing Over' ceremony when Sir Cosmo Haskard, Governor of the Falkland Islands (second from left) passed the letters of ownership of the SS Great Britain from the Crown and Island's Council to Lord Euan Strathcona (left) representing the Great Britain Project Committee of the Society for Nautical Research. Also in the picture Lady Haskard (right) and Miss Madge Biggs.

 

 

 

 

 


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