Object Type: photograph

2000.83.11

Black and white photograph of Donald Archie and Malcolm Kennedy of Moss.

Donald Archie Kenendy of Moss who was lost at sea in 1939 and his brother Malcolm whose ship was blown up in 1946. Donald Archie and Malcolm were brothers of Morag Kennedy, Evelyn O`Flynn`s mother.

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2003.180.1

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)

2003.181.0

Twelve colour photographs of the construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992.

The construction of the roll-on roll-off ferry terminus at Gott Bay pier in 1992. Six photographs are on display W20-W26.