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High time Kirkwall got another pier. [Three liners at the Hatston Pier today... if you get three for Dounby Show there will liners to Sha...
Busy Bee, Kathleen Annie and Leeaside 10-11-24 Not sure of the story here, but the next picture notes that Busy Bee is burned.
Norwegian tanker - DOVREFJELL. The Norwegian tanker Dovrefjell was launched 12-09 09-40 and completed 10-43. Built as a tanker at t...
Dovrefjell on the Pentland Skerries. While on passage from the Tyne to Canada in ballast the Norwegian ore carrier DOVREFJELL of some 9,8...
RFA tanker. PEARLEAF - A77 RFA.tanker A77-PEARLEAF - Along side at Lyness in the early seventies, picture taken from the ot...
HMS-BLAKE-C99 HMS BLAKE C99 along side the wharf at Lyness in the early seventies 1973 is a guess but it was in t...
Rose lll Rose ||| ran aground in thick fog on Spencie near Odiness point in 1933
St Ola leaving Scapa Pier I came across this old photo while looking through a batch. Don't know it's origins, photographer o...
Edenmore This is avery poor picture taken off a photo copy I think. The Edenmore left Hamburg on Oct 3rd 1909...
Seaman, survivor of H.M.S. Opal The only survivor of H.M.S. Opal which went ashore at Hesta Head South Ronaldsay
Ship ashore Found this old picture among some old documents. Ihave absolutely no idea what it is . The date is o...

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