Tour Scotland Photographs North Carr Lightship Dundee

Tour Scotland photograph of North Carr Lightship in Victoria Docks, Dundee, Scotland. North Carr is the last remaining Scottish lightship. The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the North Carr rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off Fife Ness at the turning point for vessels entering the Forth from the North and bound for the Tay. The North Carr is currently berthed in the Victoria Dock, Dundee, awaiting restoration as an exhibition space. On 8th December 1959, the lightship was the subject of a tragic rescue mission. After the lightship broke her moorings and began to drift in heavy seas, the Broughty Ferry lifeboat, The Mona, was launched. Her crew of eight was lost when the Lifeboat capsized. The Lightship and its crew survived and after repair was towed back to its station.

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Old Photograph Cottages Glencoe Scottish Highlands Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Glencoe, Scotland. " You are hereby ordered to fall upon the rebels, the MacDonalds of Glencoe, and to put all to the sword under seventy. " This was the treacherous and cold-blooded order ruthlessly carried out on 13 February 1692, when the Campbells slaughtered their hosts the MacDonalds at the Massacre of Glencoe. It was a bloody incident which had deep repercussions and was the beginning of the destruction of the Highlanders. John Prebble’s masterly description of the terrible events at Glencoe is described as evocative and powerful.



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Old Photograph Dunstaffnage Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunstaffnage Castle three miles North of Oban, Scotland. This Scottish castle is located at the south-west of the entrance to Loch Etive, and is surrounded on three sides by the sea. It was built by the MacDougall lords of Lorn, and has been held since the 15th century by the Clan Campbell.

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Old Photograph Inveraray Castle Scotland

Old photograph of the castle at Inveraray, Scotland. A beautiful Scottish castle in a Royal Burgh and a hereditary seat and headquarters for centuries of the most consistently powerful, if by no means popular clan in Scotland, the Clan Campbell, Dukes of Argyll.



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Old Photographs Dunollie Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Dunollie Castle near Oban, Scotland. The ruined Dunollie Castle crowns a promontory to the north of the town of Oban and is surrounded on three sides by the sea. It is the ancient stronghold of the MacDougalls, the Lords of Lorn, barons so powerful that they once owned a third of Scotland. Their descendant MacDougall of MacDougall, Chief of the Clan MacDougall is still in possession of the castle and some surrounding lands, though on a slightly smaller scale.

Old photograph of Dunollie Castle near Oban, Scotland.

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