Black and white postcard of the ferry `Dunara Castle` at Gott Bay pier.
The `Dunara Castle` at Gott Bay pier.
1999.113.7
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1999.113.8
Black and white photograph of the MV `Lochearn` approaching Tiree in 1934.
MV `Lochearn` approaching Tiree in 1934.
1999.113.23
Gott Bay pier in the 1920s
Photograph of a pig being hoisted aboard a steamer at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
Courtesy of Mrs Grace Campbell
In this photograph taken in the 1920s, a pig is being hoisted by a rope sling aboard a small steamer at Gott Bay pier. Canvas slings were more commonly used, but even so the pigs used to scream most horribly while in the air.
The Statistical Account of 1845 records that ‘a great number of pigs have been reared in this parish… They are generally exported alive chiefly to Glasgow and Greenock… Last spring upwards of 500 were shipped off from this island.’
The Agricultural Statistics for Tiree show that in 1867 there were only 260 pigs on the island. In 1910, the numbers had increased to 360, half of which were breeding sows. However, after 1910 the numbers declined steadily and by the mid-1960s there were none on the island
Black and white photograph of a pig being hoisted off a boat.
A pig being hoisted on or off a boat, probably taken in the 1930s.
1999.113.25
Black and white photograph of puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts, probably in the 1930s or 1940s.
1999.113.26
Black and white photograph of puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts.
Puffer discharging coal into horse-drawn carts, probably in the 1930s or 1940s.
1998.114.1
Handwritten information about the Mary Stewart by Donald MacKinnon, Sandaig.
Information about the Mary Stewart written by Donald MacKinnon, Sandaig, with typed transcript.
1998.83.1
Photocopied newspaper article about Tiree (incomplete).
Incomplete copy of an article by George E. Meston about a visit to Tiree in the 1930s, includes paragraphs about the air and ferry services, Gott pier, the wild flowersand lochans, Mr Sinclair in Balemartine and his gramophone and wireless sets, St Columba and Skerryvore.
1998.107.2
Photocopied letter to the editor dated 6/5/1907 by Lady Victoria Campbell about the poor ferry service to Tiree.
Letter by Lady Victoria Campbell dated 6/5/1907 about the poor ferry service to Tiree.
2003.33.1
On board ‘Jessie Munn’
Transcription of a diary written aboard the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ in 1861-2.
Click here for full transcript
Courtesy of Mrs Nan Elliott
This account of a three-month journey to Australia in 1861 was written on board the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ by an unknown young woman. Her reasons for emigrating are not given but it seems from a letter at the end of the diary that she hoped to better her standard of living.
What is certain is that she had a brave and adventurous spirit to travel 15,000 thousand miles, unaccompanied by friend or family, through some of the roughest seas in the world wholly dependant on the skills of the captain and crew and the sea-worthiness of a small sailing ship.
Indeed, she was fortunate in her choice of the ‘Jessie Munn’. The Australian Board of Health inspector commended the cleanliness of the ship and, unlike many other voyages of the time to the Antipodes, there was no disease or deaths among the passengers.
2000.64.6.1
Magazine `The Coastguard` with two articles about the sinking of the `Loch Seaforth` in 1973.
Article `But Willie was quite happy in the Land of Nod` about a passenger of the ferry `Loch Seaforth` who slept through the ferry hitting the rocks and finally sinking off Gott Bay pier. Article by P. R. A. Russell Brown about the sinking of the ferry `Loch Seaforth`.