SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

 

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

File number: ssbw0029

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The late Dr. Ewan Corlett, the Naval Architect whose letter to The Times in November 1967 first prompted interest in the idea of salvaging the Great Britain. He was in Montevideo to greet the flotilla when it arrived on 2 May 1970.

 

 

 

 

 


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