Object Type: photograph

2012.75.2

Photograph of the SS Derrynane in Canada, 1939

Black & white photograph of the Merchant Navy SS Derrynane passing under Lion`s Gate Bridge, Vancouver, Canada in 1939. It was while serving on this ship during WWII that Chief Officer Charles Lamont MacDonald (1896-1941), Sackhill, Ruaig, died aged 41 when the ship was sunk by the German Heavy Cruiser, Admiral Hipper. Charles was the son of Donald & Christina MacDonald, and husband of Flora A MacDonald of Crookston, Glasgow.

 

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2012.74.6

Photograph of Christine MacDonald, Scarinish, receiving a Silk Cut Nautical Award in 1991

Black & white photograph of Christine MacDonald (MacClounnan, nee MacFarlane) receiving a Silk Cut Nautical Award at the Dorchester Hotel in London in 1991. Christine rescued her boyfriend Kenneth MacLounnan, Balephuil, when the fishing boat `Travee`, skippered by Kevan Brown, Balephuil, sank in Gunna Sound in 1991. (see also newspaper cuttings 2012.74.1 and award 2012.74.2).

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2012.74.8

Photograph of Lachie MacFarlane, Hynish, with Mike Stanfield of the Hebridean Trust in the early 1990s

Colour photograph of (L-R) Lachie MacFarlane (b. 1920), Hynish, standing with Mike Stanfield of the Hebridean Trust at Hynish in the early 1990s. Signed “To Lachie with best wishes and thanks, Mike”.

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2012.74.25

Photograph of dipping lug-sail boats racing ca. 1970

Colour photograph of three dipping lug-sail boats racing under sail at the Tiree Regatta around 1970 (with a forth boat in the background heading the other way).

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