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.
Newspaper article about the sinking of a boat carrying 26 people from Tiree in 1828.
Extract from a letter from a man on Coll to a man in Glasgow dated 31st May 1828, published in the Glasgow Herald and extracted by The Times. On the 29th of May 1828 a boat carrying 26 people from Tiree struck rocks near the Treshnish Isles after a peat-cutting expedition to Mull. Twenty-one died. They were Hector John Cameron and his sister Mary Cameron, Charles MacLean, Mary MacDonald, Jean Campbell, Mary Carlisle, William MacLean and his wife, Donald MacLean and his sister Mary MacLean, Catherine Galbraith and her brother Malcolm MacInnes, Alexander Rainey, Alexander Cameron, Neil MacDonald and his daughter.
Newspaper article about drowning of John Neil McLean in Australia, 1911
Photocopy of a newspaper article about the death of John Neil McLean, brother of Charles McLean, Kenovay, who drowned on 10th October 1911, when the ship on which he was second mate, the SS MacLeay, struck rocks of North Head, New South Wales, Australia.
Brass deck light from HMS Sturdy which was wrecked on the rocks off Sandaig in 1940.
Email message about HMS Sturdy and photographs
Email message from Derek Fox to John Holliday about photographs of the wrecked HMS Sturdy at Sandaig in 1940. Black and white photo of wrecked whaler (life boat) attached.
Book “Never Forget, Nor Forgive” by the captain of HMS Sturdy.
Softback book by the captain of HMS Sturdy, which was wrecked off Sandaig during the second world war. The book recalls Captain George Cooper`s experiences at sea, particularly during his time as a Japanese prisoner of war. Signed by the author.
Admiralty charts from the Board of Enquiry into the wreck of the HMS Sturdy
Copies of 5 charts pertaining to the Board of Enquiry (Nov. 1940) into the wreck of the HMS Sturdy on the shore at Sandaig on 30 October 1940. From originals held at the National Archives, Kew.
Papers from the Board of Enquiry into the wreck of the HMS Sturdy
Photocopies of papers from the Board of Enquiry into the wreck of the HMS Sturdy on the shore at Sandaig on 30 October 1940. Copies of originals held at the National Archives, Kew.
Captain`s chair from the S.S. `Malve`.
Wooden swivel chair with iron base from the bridge of the S.S. `Malve`, a Finnish steamship wrecked off Balephetrish Bay in 1931. The chair was salvaged by Charles Lamont (Tearlach Iseabail) of the Coal-ree in Kenovay and acquired by Mairi MacFarlane (Mairi Tearlach Mairi) of Creagan Breac in Cornaigbeg, whose parents Charles (Tearlach Mòr) and Flora (Floraidh Lachainn Eòghain) MacKinnon ‘purchased’ the Coal-ree in 1952. It was restored by Alan Reid of Kenovay.
Printout from Inveraray Jail website about six Tiree men charged with plundering a wreck near Hough in 1834: John Beaton, Archibald Kennedy, Donald MacMillan, Malcom MacMillan, Peter MacDonald and James Black.
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