#iolaire

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen Source: Flickr

This was a lovely final Ceilidh on the ward with Margaret Ferguson and her gorgeous Iolaire 100 tribute paintings.

Prince Charles, Lord Of The Isles and Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined hundreds at the Iolaire Memorial in Stornoway today to remember those involved in the tragic sinking of HMY Iolaire on New Year’s Day 1919. The ship hit ‘The Beasts of Holm’ rocks, around 20 yards from Stornoway’s coastline, as it brought men home from World War One. Of around 300 on board, over 200 men from Lewis and Harris perished along with the crew. http://ww100scotland.com/news/iolaire-tragedy-remembered-100-years-on/ Read the full article

Two tragic sinkings - bringing devestation to rural communities 6000 miles apart Exactly 98 years ago today in the sound of Stornaway, a ship named the Iolaire capsized on the edge of the natural harbour within a few miles of the dockside at Holm (in the bottom right hand corner of this map).

every New Year I think of this.