Kintyre on record

The pages here draw from a 1947-published, 5th edition of The Clyde Cruising Club's "Sailing Directions for The West Coast of Scotland", the 'characteristics' of all the lighthouses and buoys described in the 1947-published guide removed from the pages here for obvious reasons as the characteristics of lights and buoys are liable to alteration from year to year and reference should always be ...

Campbeltown was the headquarters of no fewer than seven large Revenue cruisers, all being commanded by naval officers. They were powerful vessels, generally manned by double crews, each having a smaller craft to act as tender, their chief duties being to intercept those who smuggled salt, spirits, and tea from The Isle of Man. The officers and men of the cutters made Campbeltown their home, and...

CARRADALE Golf Club - TV RECEPTION - TV AND SATELLITE REPAIRS - ADVERTISING DEFAULTERS - ‘RACENIGHT’ - CARRADALE GOLF CLUB - FUNDRAISER AT THE GLEN - NOT THE EKCC MINUTES - THE EDITOR’S PERSONAL VIEW - ONE FUNERAL AND A MARRIAGE (ROOM) - B.O.G.O.F. - (BUY ONE GET ONE FREE) - ABC MAKE A GRAVE OFFER - NETWORK THANKS THE WIND FARM TRUST - COMMUTER BUS SUCCESS ? - MARC...

With the celebration of The 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar in 2005 and the continuing popularity of books by Captain Marryat, Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent, Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester, many of the latter’s ‘Hornblower’ stories being produced for television in a £14m series, it seemed useful and appropriate to provide some detail about the ships and the crews, the ‘men-of-war’ of Nels...

Fans of the exploits of C. S. Forester's hero Horatio Hornblower will relate strongly to the story of Kintyre's own hero Captain John Fleming R.N. for, exactly eleven weeks to the day after Nelson’s great battle at Trafalgar, on January 6, 1806, Fleming was involved in an action for which his ‘singular gallantry’ led him to be presented with a ‘sword of honour’ from The Patriotic Fund of Ll...

BOTTLED SAFETY - S’NO GOOD ON THE B842 - FEBRUARY RAINFALL - CARRADALE Golf Club - MULL, PONTICUM & PHYTOPHTHORA RAMORUM - Volunteer Awards 2008 - LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Re - Bus Services - FUTURE SERVICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE - DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT - ROLE OF COMMUNITY COUNCILS IN THE PLANNING PROCESS - PLANNING APPLICATIONS - WITNESSES SUPPORT SERVICE - JOHN STRANG – TWO ...

The late Forsyth Hamilton, world famous for smoked salmon, remembers life as it was in the Argyllshire village of Ardrishaig, on Loch Fyne and in The Crinan Canal.

A Luftwaffe copy of an Ordnance Survey map of Campbeltown issued to WWII pilots

Complementary reference for anyone downloading Kintyre On Record's "U-Boat Movements 1939 - 1945" file.

Complementary reference for anyone downloading Kintyre On Record's "U-Boat Movements 1939 - 1945" file.