Tag: Lundy Islands

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 06:55 UTC

  Philanthropist who funded recovery of Falklands' SS Great Britain had died

  

  Sir Jack Hayward, the man instrumental in bringing the SS Great Britain back to Bristol, has died. The 91-year-old multi-millionaire helped fund the project to return Brunel's ship from the Falkland Islands in 1970, a journey of 8,000 miles. Known as 'Union Jack' for his patriotism, the businessman was a former owner of Wolverhampton Wanderers.