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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

HISTORICAL FACTS: Millennium falcon exhibition opens in welsh town where ship was built - The Untold Story

The Millennium Falcon under construction at Pembroke Dock
The Millennium Falcon under construction at Pembroke Dock in the 1970s, in a hangar previously used to build flying boats. Photograph: Pembroke Dock Heritage Trust

It is perhaps the most recognisable and beloved spaceship in movie history – a battered old warrior of a vessel that got Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and the rest of the Star Wars crew out of – and into – a string of sci-fi scrapes.

What is not so well known is that the Millennium Falcon, or at least a full-size model of it, was the last major craft to be built at a dockyard in south-west Wales.

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