reflected even in the looking-glass floodtide in Stornoway harbour, all scarlet for the fallen. The world wars were so close when I was a boy. So many still of working age in the Seventies had ...
Folk turn out on the headlands of Stornoway harbour to snatch photographs and wave goodbye. On social media, many more monitor her online progress. More cameras poke from the bays of Harris and ...
On New Year's Day 1919, more than 200 men returning home from the Great War were killed when HMY Iolaire struck rocks close to Stornoway Harbour. Iain Finlay Macleod's story marks the anniversary ...
Making its final approach into Stornoway harbour on a dark night and in a strong gale, it changed course at the wrong point. With the lights of the harbour in sight, the ship struck rocks at full ...