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Ships and boats

Communicator Still being chopped up next to the Hope pier, on 21st October.
Pioneer Cammander ashore on Pentland Skerries The Pioneer Commander went ashore on the Pentland Skerries in thick fog - she was a merchant ship bu...
Kirkwall Harbour post card of kirkwall harbour can anyone put names to the boats
Reflections - Stromness From a postcard published by John Rae,Stromness. Photographer unknown. Postmarked 1936.
Amber Queen This was a boat brought to Longhope by Jock Smith she had been sunk in the Thurso river and was in a...
KIRKWALL BASIN Smal boats messing about in the harbour.
Lighthouse tender, May, ashore on Rysa Little Not a very good photo but does show the ship is hard ashore. I might be wrong with the date but you...
North Isles Boats Loading MV Orcadia. These small containers were a bit of a break through. Previous to their intro...
Stromness Harbour and the Holms This postcard has recently come into my possession and I would be interested to find out if this is ...
Green Castle Ashore near Rackwick This photo was taken by Barry Jones and shows the Stromness and Longhope Lifeboats trying to pull th...
Earl Thorfinn at Shapinsay Pier Unusual to see the 'North Isles' boat at the Shapinsay Pier. The Xarifa in the foreground.
Lifeboat flotilla The arrival of the new Longhope lifeboat.

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