SOUTH AMERICAN PICTURES

 

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

File number: ssba0110

© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

The remains of a unicorn figure at the base of the bowsprit on the port side. The bowsprit broke off while the ship was in Sparrow Cove and was recovered in 1969. A part of the crest originally mounted beneath the bowsprit was found on a beach and later preserved in the Falkland Islands' museum.

 

 

 

 

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