Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 311, 24/1/2004.
Local news and events including a forthcoming social economic survey of Tiree, a proposed community buy-out of Tiree, broadband, clarification of CalMac tender process, and news from the Christmas Parties Committee, the school and An Talla.
CalMac timetable for summer 2000 and a passenger registration/boarding card.
CalMac timetable for summer 2000 and a passenger registration/boarding card.
Black and white photograph of Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
The ferry at Gott Bay pier from a small photograph album from Silversands dating from the late 1920s.
Black and white photograph of visitors on the ferry in 1924.
Visitors on the ferry, probably the `Cygnet`, from a small photograph album from Silversands in Vaul titled `1924`.
Black and white postcard of the ferry at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
The ferry, probably the Cygnet, at Gott Bay pier in the 1920s.
Audio cassette recording of Maggie Campbell talking to John George MacLean in Scarinish on 11/1/2000.
Maggie Campbell talks to John George MacLean in January 2000 about the pay and conditions of the workers building piers in Tiree, the lighter taking cargo to the steamers, the sling and crane used to lift livestock, the railway tracks down Gott Bay pier to the stores, the pier at Heanish, the coal puffers and the ‘Mary and Effie’, pier masters, and the Scarinish Hotel and shop. Tha Mairead Chaimbeul a’ bruidhinn ri Iain Dheòrsa Mac ’Ill ’Leathain a Sgairinis anns an Fhaoilteach 2000 mun phaigheadh agus shuidheachadh luchd-obrach nan cidhe Thiriodh; an geòla a giùlain luchd gu na bàtaichean-aiseig; an crann a thog beathaichean; an rathad-iarainn air a’ chidhe; cidhe Hianais; bàtaichean-guail agus am Mary and Effie, na maighstirean-cidhe; taigh-òsda Sgairinis agus Bùth Dhan.
S.S. ‘Cygnet’
Postcard of the S.S. ‘Cygnet’ approaching Gott Bay pier.
Courtesy of Mrs Ishobel MacDonald
Built as a cargo steamer, the S.S. ‘Cygnet’ was launched from Inglis’ Yard on the Clyde in 1904. She received a boiler and the starboard engine salvaged from the MacBrayne steamship ‘Flowerdale’ which was lost off Lismore earlier that year.
Initially on the Glasgow-Inverary route, the ‘Cygnet’ was modified after World War I to accommodate passengers and transferred to the Oban-Coll-Tiree-Castlebay-Lochboisdale route. She was sold in 1930 and broken up the following year.
Alasdair Sinclair of Brock remembers the ‘Cygnet’ as a dreadful wee boat: ‘There was nowhere at all to sit…You just stood on deck ankle-deep in water and watched your luggage floating about.’
Black and white postcard of the ferry approaching Tiree pier.
The ferry `Cygnet` approaching Tiree in the 1920s. The SS `Cygnet` was launched in 1904, relieved the Outer Isles ferries until the end of WWI, then was based in Oban and conducted the Islands mail services until 1930 when she was sold. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
Caledonian MacBrayne timetable for winter 2000/2001.
Timetable and fares for CalMac ferries from 22/10/2000 to 12/4/2001.
Caledonian MacBrayne timetable for summer 2001.
Timetable and fares for CalMac ferries from 13/4/2001 to 20/10/2001.
Laminated leaftlet about the MV `Clansman`.
Information about the dimensions, machinery, tonnage, etc of the MV `Clansman`.
