Dates: 1920s

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S.S. ‘Cygnet’

Postcard of the S.S. ‘Cygnet’ approaching Gott Bay pier.

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Courtesy of Mrs Ishobel MacDonald

Built as a cargo steamer, the S.S. ‘Cygnet’ was launched from Inglis’ Yard on the Clyde in 1904. She received a boiler and the starboard engine salvaged from the MacBrayne steamship ‘Flowerdale’ which was lost off Lismore earlier that year.

Initially on the Glasgow-Inverary route, the ‘Cygnet’ was modified after World War I to accommodate passengers and transferred to the Oban-Coll-Tiree-Castlebay-Lochboisdale route. She was sold in 1930 and broken up the following year.

Alasdair Sinclair of Brock remembers the ‘Cygnet’ as a dreadful wee boat: ‘There was nowhere at all to sit…You just stood on deck ankle-deep in water and watched your luggage floating about.’

Black and white postcard of the ferry approaching Tiree pier.

The ferry `Cygnet` approaching Tiree in the 1920s. The SS `Cygnet` was launched in 1904, relieved the Outer Isles ferries until the end of WWI, then was based in Oban and conducted the Islands mail services until 1930 when she was sold. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)

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Black and white photograph of Heylipol School 1927-8.

Heylipol School 1927-8. L-R: (front row) Lachie MacDonald, Sandaig; John MacPhail, Balephuil; Neil MacNeill, Barrapol; Alasdair Sinclair, Greenhill; Donald Campbell, Moss; Donald Kennedy, Balephuil; James Campbell, Heylipol; Hugh MacKinnon, Hough; Donald Archie MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Joan Kennedy, Kilkenneth; Lachie MacFarlane, Barrapol; Annie Brown, Crossapol; James MacKinnon, Moss; Effie Kennedy, Moss; Janet Campbell, Moss; (2nd front row) Annie MacDonald, Moss; Peggy MacNeill, Barrapol; Margaret Ann Campbell, Moss; Katy Ann Campbell, Heylipol; Flora Ann MacLean, Hough; Flora MacArthur, Sandaig; Annie MacKinnon, Hough; Annie Kennedy, Moss; Peggy MacLean, Hough; Fiona MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Marion MacLean, Hough; Annie Cameron, Moss; Willie MacLean, Barrapol; (2nd back row) Miss MacIvor, Primary Teacher; Neil MacDonald, Sandaig; Hannah MacNeill, Barrapol; Dolina MacLean, Hough; Mary Campbell, Heylipol; Annie Campbell, Moss; H. I. MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Elsie MacLean, Barrapol; Malcolm MacDonald, Barrapol; (back row) Duncan MacPhail, Balephuil; Willie MacNeill, Barrapol; Colin MacIntyre, Kilkenneth; Alasdair MacKinnon, Kilkenneth (Sandaig); Hugh MacLean, Barrapol; Hugh J MacDonald, Kilkenneth; Mr MacArthur, Headteacher.

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Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag in Harris

Photograph of blacksmith Archie MacEachern and his sister Fileag at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s.

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Courtesy of Mrs Mairi Brady

In this photograph taken at Leverburgh Sunday School in Harris in the 1920s, Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second on the left. Their father was Archibald MacEachern, the blacksmith at Creag Mhòr in Cornaigbeg.

Archie worked for around eleven years on Harris as a blacksmith and missionary. Part of his work involved making spearheads for the harpoons used in the whaling industry. He returned to Tiree in the 1930s to work in the smiddy at Creag Mhòr.

He married Catherine MacLean from The Brae, Cornaigbeg and the couple had three children, Archibald, Hugh and Mary. Archie continued his missionary work, preaching in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.

Black and white photograph of Archie and Fileag MacEachern in Harris in the 1920s.

Leverburgh Sunday School, Harris, in the 1920s. Archie MacEachern is in the centre and his sister Fileag is second left. Archie was the blacksmith at Creag Mhor in Cornaigbeg and also a lay preacher and missionary. He preached in the United Free Church in Kirkapol in the 1930s.

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