A Victorian steamship built in a Thames dockyard and flatpacked to the other side of the world more than 150 years ago is setting sail again — with a group of young Londoners on board.
The Yavari was built as a gunboat in London in 1862 then stripped down and shipped to Peru, where the 1,383 pieces of metal and wood were hauled by mules across the Andes to Lake Titicaca. The ship carried passengers until the late Fifties before falling into disrepair — but has now been restored.
Read more about the story here in the London Evening Standard.