Photocopied newspaper article `The Great Ship Race from China to London`.
Account of the competition between the swiftest clippers in the China trade won by the `Taeping` captained by Donald MacKinnon, Heanish.
1997.66.1
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1997.67.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Skipper they couldn`t sink dies at 61`.
Account of Captain Neil Macfadyen, master of a torpedoed ship, the Ocean Viceroy, which struggled home to the Clyde menaced by submarines during World War II.
1997.67.2
Photocopied newspaper photograph `M. N. Officers honoured`.
Photograph of presentation of Lloyd`s Medals to three Glasgow Merchant Navy Officers including Captain Neil Macfadyen.
1997.67.3
Photocopied newspaper article `Tiree Captain beat U-boats` dated 1/7/1961.
Account of Captain Neil Macfadyen, master of a torpedoed ship, the Ocean Viceroy, which struggled home to the Clyde menaced by submarines during World War II.
1997.68.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Honorary Physician to the Queen – The Late Surgeon Captain M. Brown, Tiree`.
Obituary for Captain Murdoch Brown of Mannal. Brother of Dr Catherine Brown (see 1997.64.1)
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1997.69.1
Photocopied obituaries and death notices for Allan and Amelia MacFadyen, Scarinish.
Obituaries and death notices for Allan MacFadyen, his wife Amelia Stewart of Scarinish and two of their daughters.
1997.60.1
Photocopied newspaper article `The Island of Tiree` by A MacLean Sinclair
Newspaper article by A MacLean Sinclair containing three stories of Tiree: (1) How Neil MacFadyen and Donald MacLean were seized by the crew of a French brig and forced to pilot the ship to Lochnanuagh where Prince Charlie and 130 of his followers embarked for France, (2) An attempt to trace the ancestry of Dr James MacLean of Balephuill from Hector Roy, ninth laird of Coll, (3) Biographical information about the Rev. John Sinclair from the Gott area.
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1997.61.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Faidhean is faidhean-breige` by Niall M. Brownlie.
Article in Gaelic about seers and prophets, in particular John MacLean (iain Mac Eachainn Bhain) of Hough.
1997.62.1
Photocopied newspaper article `Tiree Folk Still Recall the Great China Tea Race` by A. M Kempsell.
Article about the Great China Tea Race of 1866, the winner of which the `Taeping` was captained by Tiree man Donald MacKinnon.
1997.63.1.1
Photocpy of two newspaper articles `Thank you, Tiree!` and `The Late Captain Allan Campbell, Scarinish`.
(1) Letter to the editor of the People`s Journal by T. Henry Ruddich from near Carlisle who stayed on holiday at `Seaside`, Vaul. He praises Tiree as a holiday destination and includes a four-verse poem. (2) Obituary for Allan Campbell of Deobedal, Scarinsh.