What will you be doing at 2.30am on New Year's Day?
It will be exactly 90 years since the Iolaire hit rocks and sank - Britain's worst peacetime shipping disaster since the Titanic. Have you ever heard of it?
Men were returning from 4 years at war - their families were waiting eagerly to see them again. And they drowned within sight of the harbour...just a few metres from shore.
My granny (now 97) remembers her father (my avatar) going down to the beach in his best Sunday clothes out of respect for the dead that he would find on the beach and bring ashore.
Here's a longer article:
Culture Hebrides - Island holidays in the Gaelic Heartland of Scotland
It will be exactly 90 years since the Iolaire hit rocks and sank - Britain's worst peacetime shipping disaster since the Titanic. Have you ever heard of it?
Men were returning from 4 years at war - their families were waiting eagerly to see them again. And they drowned within sight of the harbour...just a few metres from shore.
My granny (now 97) remembers her father (my avatar) going down to the beach in his best Sunday clothes out of respect for the dead that he would find on the beach and bring ashore.
Here's a longer article:
Culture Hebrides - Island holidays in the Gaelic Heartland of Scotland
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