Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart beached at Scarinish harbour.
The schooner `Mary Stewart` beached at Scarinish harbour and the `Mary & Effie` discharging cargo at the pier. The Scarinish Hotel is on the extreme left.
Black and white postcard of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour.
The schooner Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour with the hotel to the right, probably in the 1930s.
Pulley block from the schooner `Mary Stewart`.
Pulley block from the schooner `Mary Stewart`.
Foghorn from the schooner `Mary Stewart`.
Foghorn (missing rubber bulb) used on board the schooner Mary Stewart, originally an early 20th century car horn. It was a family tradition of the owners (Donald Maclean of Scarinish and his sons) to blow the horn if there was a marriage in the township.
Audio cassette recording of Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talking to Dr John Holliday in November 1998.
Angus Munn and Neil Johnston of Heanish talk to Dr John Holliday in November 1998 about their schooling and teachers, delivering telegrams, the last trip of the Mary Stewart, the start of WWII, the police service during the war, the mine that damaged the Bank House, the Embarkation Unit and the Fighter Block at Heanish, Preston Potts, a trip to Scapa Flow, the police station at Heanish, shebeens, Clann Alasdair in Baugh, the Malve, horses, Cornaig police station, ceilidhs and the Reading Room.
Black and white postcard of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour.
Postcard of the schooner Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour with the hotel in the background.
Black and white photograph of Chrissie MacDonald of Balemartine and Jote MacMaster in the 1930s.
Chrissie MacDonald of Balemartine and `Jote` MacMaster of Kenovay outside the Scarinish Hotel in the 1930s, with the Mary Stewart in the background.
Black and white photograph of Chrissie MacDonald of Balemartine and others in the 1930s.
Scarinish harbour with the Mary Stewart in the 1930s. On the extreme right is Chrissie MacDonald of Balemartine who worked in the Scarinish Hotel.
The ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour.
Photograph of the schooner ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour in the early 20th century.
Courtesy of Mr Angus Munn
This photograph taken in the 1920s or 1930s shows the ‘Mary Stewart’ in Scarinish harbour with the Temperance Hotel on the right and MacArthurs’ general store on the left. Built by Barclay in Ardrossan in 1868, the sixty-four foot long ‘Mary Stewart’ was rigged as double-topsail schooner and had a tonnage of sixty-five.
Originally trading on the Irish coast, she was bought in 1908 for Donald MacLean of Scarinish by his relation, Dugald MacKinnon. Dugald was known as Dùghall an Òir (Dugald of the gold) because he had had been successful in the Australian Gold Rush.
Donald MacLean, with his sons as crew, traded up and down the West Coast of Scotland carrying coal and other cargo until the late 1930s when steam superseded sail. The remains of the ‘Mary Stewart’ can still be seen in Scarinish harbour.
Black and white photograph of the Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour.
The Mary Stewart in Scarinish harbour with MacArthur`s Store in the background at the left and the Scarinish Hotel on the right, photographed in the early 20th century.
Paperback book `Ferry Tales of Argyll and the Isles` by Walter Weyndling.
Illustrated history of the ferries that ply the waters off the coast of Argyll and along the lochs, the individuals who worked them, the people who used them and the places they served.
