Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, no. 262, 26/1/2002.
Local news and events.
2002.11.2
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1997.66.1
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.
1997.67.1
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.
1997.70.1.1
Photocopies of a Christmas card of the `Taeping` and `Ariel` with handwritten information and an extract from a book.
Photocopied reprodution of painting `The Great China Tea Race, 1866` by L. A. Wilcox, 1965, (2) account from an unknown publication of the Great China Tea Race of 1866 giving the captain of the `Taeping` as Captain Keay, and (3) photocopied handwritten account of the Great China Tea Race giving the master of the `Taeping` as Captain Donald MacKinnon of Heanish.
1997.54.1
Photocopied book extract `List of Inhabitants of Tyree and their Age in September 1779` edited by Eric Cregeen.
The inhabitants listed by township and family.
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1997.55.1
Photocopied book extract from `The Distinguished Service Cross 1901-1938` by W. H. Fevyer.
Entry for Lieutenant Archibald Lamont of the cargo carrier `Asteria`.