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Christmas at Sea: Robert Louis Stevenson, 1888

December 24, 2020 beverley yates Hazards & Challenges, North East England, Scotland

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel, despite poor health.[…]

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Ordering a herring boat, Voe, Shetland, 1881

May 12, 2020 beverley yates Scotland, Working Sail

Sarah Adie shares some fascinating insights into her family’s involvement in the Shetland herring industry. Her great grandfather set up[…]

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Cruise of the ‘Joan’: the Tyne to Arbroath, 1923

April 26, 2020 beverley yates North East England, Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland

‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]

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Royal Yacht sails on the Clyde: 1923

December 31, 2019 beverley yates Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland

This Pathé Gazette has evocative footage of yachts racing on the Clyde in 1923, including the King’s yacht, ‘Britannia’. The[…]

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Charlie Barr and the ‘Atlantic’ story

December 22, 2019 beverley yates North Atlantic, Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland

The stern Scot, Charlie Barr, was arguably the best racing skipper Britain ever produced. His most famous achievement must be[…]

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The British trawler fleet: 1940 – 1949

November 27, 2019 beverley yates Bristol Channel, English East Coast, North East England, North West England, Scotland, Working Sail

This ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]

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Trawling in Scotland: 1929 – 1931

November 24, 2019 beverley yates Scotland, Working Sail

This Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers  and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]

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‘Never again, she’s damned if she will!’

July 7, 2019 beverley yates Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland, South West England

This extract is from Tim Madge’s book ‘Royal Yachts of the World’. It includes the Queen’s rebuff during a storm[…]

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Cruising the ‘Small Isles’ in 1938

June 9, 2019 beverley yates Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland

9 – 10 June, 1938 finds ‘Robinetta’ sailing from Ornsay to Mallaig and through the ‘Small Isles’ of Rhum, Eigg[…]

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Duke of Edinburgh on the Clyde (1956)

August 15, 2018 beverley yates Sailing for Pleasure, Scotland

This British Pathé archive newsreel shows the Duke of Edinburgh arriving in the Royal Yacht Britannia to race in the[…]

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