Editing SS Great Britain (section)

===Later history===

[[File:MizzenMast.JPG|thumb|right|The ship's mizzen mast in Port Stanley]] In 1882 ''Great Britain'' was converted into a [[sailing ship]] to transport bulk coal.<ref name=salvage1970>{{cite web|title=Salvage of S.S. Great Britain 1970 |url=http://www.cachalots.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Britain-chapter.pdf |publisher=The Cachalots |access-date=14 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627041607/http://www.cachalots.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Great-Britain-chapter.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2015 }}</ref> The work was done by Messrs. C. & E. Grayson, Liverpool.<ref name=Times301282>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Shipbuilding on the River Mersey |date=30 December 1882 |page=10 |issue=30704 |column=B }}</ref> She made her final voyage in 1886, after loading up with coal and leaving [[Penarth Dock]] in Wales for [[San Francisco]] on 8 February.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Penarth Mysteries: No 2&nbsp;– The Buried Secrets Of Penarth's Plymouth Park |url=https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/the-rotting-rubbish-beneath-penarth-marinas-green-is-still-costing-us-a-fortune/ |publisher=Penarth Daily News |date=4 July 2013 |access-date=29 February 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313082644/https://penarthnews.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/the-rotting-rubbish-beneath-penarth-marinas-green-is-still-costing-us-a-fortune/ |archive-date=13 March 2016 }}</ref> After a fire on board en route she was found, on arrival at [[Port Stanley]] in the [[Falkland Islands]] where she ran aground, to be damaged beyond economic repair.<ref name=salvage1970 /><ref name=Times120686>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Latest Shipping Intelligence |date=12 June 1886 |issue=31784 |page=13 |column=B }}</ref> She was sold to the [[Falkland Islands Company]] and used, afloat, as a storage [[hulk (ship type)|hulk]] (coal bunker) until 1937, when she was towed to [[Sparrow Cove]], {{convert|3.5|mi|km}} from Port Stanley, scuttled and abandoned.<ref>{{cite web|title=SS Great Britain: 1970 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/12/06/pwaod_ship_002_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=14 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428024423/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2005/12/06/pwaod_ship_002_feature.shtml |archive-date=28 April 2014 }}</ref> As a bunker, she coaled the South Atlantic fleet that defeated Admiral [[Graf Maximilian von Spee]]'s fleet in the First World War [[Battle of the Falkland Islands]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Battle of the Falkland Islands (8th December 1914) |url=http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/battles/Battle-of-Falkland-Islands.php |publisher=The Wartime Memories Project |access-date=14 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402095312/http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/battles/Battle-of-Falkland-Islands.php |archive-date= 2 April 2015 }}</ref> In the [[Second World War]], some of her iron was scavenged to repair {{HMS|Exeter|68|6}}, one of the [[Royal Navy]] ships that fought ''[[German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee|Graf Spee]]'' and was badly damaged during the [[Battle of the River Plate]].{{sfn|Haddelsey|Carroll|2014|p=1}}