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2002.12.4

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Standard letter from British Airways dated 1/2/2002.

The arrangements that hold if the flight to Tiree is cancelled due to adverse weather conditions.

| Tags: air travel, other means of communication|
| Dates: 2000s| | Object Types: document|

2002.12.5

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Photocopied book extract, pp 73-79 from `Art Rambles in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland` by John T. Reid.

Account of a journey to Coll and Tiree illustrated by the author.

| Tags: anecdotes jokes unclassifiable types, moss, scarinish|
| Dates: 1860s, 1870s| | Townships: moss, scarinish| | Object Types: book extract|

2002.12.6

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Newspaper cutting `Corncrake impersonator story gets the bird` by Fordyce Maxwell.

Story of moving conrcrake nests from croft to croft so everyone can get the subsidy.

| Tags: anecdotes jokes unclassifiable types, animals, corncrakes, crofters and crofting|
| Dates: 2000s| | Object Types: newsprint|

2002.12.7

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Typewritten communication from Sandy MacKinnon, Crosspol.

Opinions of Sandy MacKinnon on those who supported the idea of Tiree being tied to the Western Isles. Submitted to An Tirisdeach but not accepted.

| Dates: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s| | Object Types: composition|
| People: MacKinnon, Mr Sandy, Crossapol (1910 - 2001)|

2002.11.1

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, no. 261, 12/1/2002.

Local news and events

| Dates: 2000s| | Object Types: newsprint|

2002.11.2

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Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, no. 262, 26/1/2002.

Local news and events.

| Dates: 2000s| | Object Types: newsprint|

1997.66.1

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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.

| Tags: boats and water travel|
| Dates: 1860s| | Object Types: newsprint|
| People: MacKinnon, Captain Donald, Heanish (1827 - 1867)|

1997.67.1

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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.

| Tags: boats and water travel, national wars, sea captains, world war ii|
| Object Types: newsprint|

1997.67.2

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Photocopied newspaper photograph `M. N. Officers honoured`.

Photograph of presentation of Lloyd`s Medals to three Glasgow Merchant Navy Officers including Captain Neil Macfadyen.

| Tags: employment, merchant navy, national wars, sea captains, world war ii|
| Object Types: newsprint|

1997.67.3

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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.

| Tags: boats and water travel, merchant navy, national wars, sea captains, world war ii|
| Object Types: newsprint|
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