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© South American Pictures/ Marion Morrison

Sir Cosmo Haskard (right) Governor of the Falkland Islands at the 'Handing Over' ceremony, in which he formally passed ownership of the ship from the British Crown to the Great Britain Committee of the Society for Nautical Research represented by Lord Euan Strathcona. Sir Cosmo also handed over a cannon ball said to have been found in a nearby bay and a memory of another historic moment in the life of the Islands