Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel, despite poor health.[…]
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Category: Scotland
Ordering a herring boat, Voe, Shetland, 1881
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
‘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
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
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
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
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!’
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
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)
This British Pathé archive newsreel shows the Duke of Edinburgh arriving in the Royal Yacht Britannia to race in the[…]
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