Photograph of early tractors arriving on the ferry circa 1950.
Black & white photograph of four early Massey-Ferguson tractors arriving at Tiree on the ferry in about 1950.
2010.25.3
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Tag Archives: boats and water travel
2010.17.1
Book “The Voyages of the Discovery”
Softback book about the history of Scott of the Antartic`s ship the “Discovery”. Tiree man Kenneth MacKenzie was appointed Chief Officer/First Mate of the Discovery for the first British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) in 1929. In 1930, he was promoted to Captain for the second BANZARE expedition. Text and photographs of Captain MacKenzie on pages 130, 134, 142.
2010.17.2
Postcard photograph of the ship ‘Discovery’ berthed at Dundee, Scotland
Colour postcard showing Scott of the Antarctic`s ship ‘Discovery’ berthed at Dundee, Scotland in 2009. Tiree man Kenneth MacKenzie was appointed Chief Officer/First Mate of the Discovery for the first British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) in 1929. In 1930, he was promoted to Captain for the second BANZARE expedition. Kenneth (Coinneach a` Mhinisdair) was the grandson of Rev Duncan MacFarlane, the Baptist minister at the old Baptist manse in Baugh.
2010.16.6
Archive film from 1944 about `The Isles of Youth`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `The Isles of Youth`. Filmed in 1944, colour, silent. David MacBrayne`s silent film of various island scenery in the western isles, interspersed with poetic texts. Subjects include ferries, buses, Oban, Stornoway, Harris and Harris tweed, Rodeland & St.Clements Church, Uist, Barra, Tiree including the ship “Mary Stewart” abandoned in Scarinish Harbour but still intact, Lunga, Iona, Staffa, Mull, Highland Games.
2010.16.7
Archive film from 1966 about `A Dentist`s Road to the Isles`
DVD film from the Scottish Screen Archive about `A Dentist`s Road to the Isles`. Filmed in 1966, colour, sound. Film journal of dental surgeon John Cadden`s trip around the isles to treat patients. Starting at his home in Dumbarton, then to Oban via the Clyde and the Crinan Canal on his boat “Contance”. Then to Tobermory for the first of his treatments, followed by Rum and Eigg. Many close-up views of dental patients undergoing treatment. He also treated patients on Tiree, Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Soay, but not on this trip.
2010.12.1
Documents, correspondence and photographs pertaining to the the sailing schooner “Oceana” that was stranded on Tiree in 1949
Information about the sailing schooner, or two-masted leisure yacht, “Oceana” that became stranded and broke up between Crossapol farm and Crossapol beach on 9th March 1949. Includes correspondence between Anthony Vaughan and (1) An Iodhlann, (2) the Receiver of Wrecks, and (3) Isle of Wight Local Studies Collection, about the location of the stranding on Tiree, records of its loss, its manufacture and changes of ownership 1879-1948, and historical photographs. Photographs include three of the Oceana under sail, one during refitting, two at anchor off Portsmouth and Isle of Wight, eight of Anthony Vaughan`s great uncle+wife on the deck of the schooner in the 1930s. How the yacht became grounded in reasonable weather is a mystery. Rumours were that they made for the airport control tower instead of the Scarinish lighthouse, and that they were smugglers or on their way to Russia to pick up a dissident.
2010.12.2
Photograph of the schooner `Oceana`
Black & white photograph of the schooner `Oceana` that ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949. The dark colour of the ship in the photograph is how it would have looked when it ran aground.
2010.12.3
Photo of schooner `Oceana` in full sail
Black & white photograph of the two-masted schooner `Oceana` in full sail ca. 1915 before the yacht`s refit in 1923. The Oceana ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
2010.12.4
Photo of the schooner `Oceana` during a refit in 1923.
Black & white photograph of the two-masted schooner `Oceana` undergoing conversion to a sailing auxilliary twin screw yacht at J. Samuel White & Co. Ltd`s shipyard in East Cowes, 1923. Good view of the figure-head. The yacht was grounded and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
2010.12.5
Photograph of the owners of the schooner `Oceana`
Black & white photograph of Clinton George Vaughan (1877-1961) and his wife Susannah aboard the two-masted schooner `Oceana` in the 1930s. The Oceana ran aground and broke up at Crossapol in 1949.
