VHS video titled ‘An Sgoth’, which could mean either ‘the skiff (sailing boat)’ or ‘the cloud’. Probably the former.
2015.25.1
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2015.30.3
Book ‘The Viking Ship’ by Gareth Williams, 2014. The evolution of the design of the Vikings’ sea-going vessels, their uses and as icons.
2015.11.2
Colour photograph of various moored boats in Scarinish Harbour during the 1970s. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2015.11.1
Photograph of Scarinish Harbour during a regatta, early 1970s
Colour photograph of Scarinish Harbour during a regatta in the early 1970s. (original stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
2015.9.1
Typed transcript of Donald Sinclair, West Hynish, singing about a boat named `Eilidh a` Chuain`, 1968
Transcript of Eric Gregeen interviewing Donald Sinclair, West Hynish, in 1968. Donald sings an old song in Gaelic about a trading boat named `Eilidh a` Chuain / Helen of the Seas`, which mentions the Isle of Mann. He doesn`t know its exact origin, only that it was passed down orally through generations of his family. Created on A3 paper using a typewriter. The transcript is labelled SA 1968/246/A1, suggesting that it may also be available on CD from Pròiseact Thiriodh, School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh.
2014.108.4
Photograph of Willie MacNeill and Dr Kennedy in the 1960s
Sepia photograph of L-R: Dr Kennedy and Willie MacNeill, The Land – Barrapol, in a fishing boat off Tiree in the 1960s.
2014.108.3
Photograph of Neil MacNeill, Scarinish, in the 1960s
Sepia photograph of Neil MacNeill, Scarinish, (Niall an Tailleir / Neil son of the Tailor) at the tiller of an open fishing boat in the 1960s.
2012.125.8
Photograph of the puffer `Glenshira` in Scarinish Harbour in 1966
Black & white photograph of the coal puffer `Glenshira` alongside the pier in Scarinish Harbour in August 1966. The store shed, and ferry `Claymore` are visible in the background with two small wooden boats in the foreground.
2012.16.8
Cover of an Annual Report from the Tiree Medical Practice, ca. 2008
Front cover of an Annual Report of the Tiree [Medical] Practice, `Iomraidh na Bliadhna, Bho`n Dotair a` Tiriodh`, from around 2008, with a colour photograph of rowing boat on Traigh Gott with the pier in the distance.
2008.46.4
Black and white photograph of fishing smacks at Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century. People from Tiree who emigrated there at that time, would have fished from these boats.
