Head from the figurehead of a Spanish prison Hulk

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In a daring heist that would be remembered for years to come, four junior navy officers from HMS Sirius pulled off a brazen theft in 1869 by stealing a figurehead from a Spanish prison hulk anchored near Fernando Po in West Africa. With the winds howling and the seas churning, they bravely rowed out into the gale, climbed up their ship's cable, and began sawing it loose with precision.