Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel, despite poor health.[…]
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Sailing By: Tales from our oceans, seas, coasts and inland waterways
Collecting 'tales of sail' from around the world to link with modern-day sailors
Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, 1850, son of a lighthouse engineer. He loved to travel, despite poor health.[…]
Read moreSarah Adie shares some fascinating insights into her family’s involvement in the Shetland herring industry. Her great grandfather set up[…]
Read more‘Cruises of the Joan’ is from a delightful series, the Lodestar Library, featuring ‘interesting, the unusual, and the downright eccentric[…]
Read moreThis Pathé Gazette has evocative footage of yachts racing on the Clyde in 1923, including the King’s yacht, ‘Britannia’. The[…]
Read moreThe stern Scot, Charlie Barr, was arguably the best racing skipper Britain ever produced. His most famous achievement must be[…]
Read moreThis ‘Instructional film’ from the Pathé Archive provides a clearly-presented overview of trawling in the 1940s, as steam began to[…]
Read moreThis Pathé Archive takes us back to 1929-31 with footage of trawlers and fishing boats going out of a harbour[…]
Read moreThis extract is from Tim Madge’s book ‘Royal Yachts of the World’. It includes the Queen’s rebuff during a storm[…]
Read more9 – 10 June, 1938 finds ‘Robinetta’ sailing from Ornsay to Mallaig and through the ‘Small Isles’ of Rhum, Eigg[…]
Read moreThis British Pathé archive newsreel shows the Duke of Edinburgh arriving in the Royal Yacht Britannia to race in the[…]
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