Pentland Road

  This is the full story, as told on this blog in five parts between 6pm on December 31st and 9am on January 1st. It is Hogmanay 1918, an...

 It is just after 9 o'clock, and the sun rises over the mountains of mainland Scotland. Its light sweeps west, and shows up a ship'...

  Iolaire was mortally damaged by her grounding, and would eventually slip from the rocks and sink into the depths beside the Beasts of H...

Conditions in the Minch are now poor, and all on board Iolaire are glad that the journey is nearly over. The passengers, most of them famil...

The year 1918 is drawing to a close and Big Ben in London is about to start striking the midnight hour. Six hundred miles to the north, HMY...

It is Hogmanay 1918, and the war has been over for seven weeks. Survivors from the Western Front and the war at sea are flocking home. As ar...

I trawled the New Cemetery at Sandwick this afternoon, and came across this lone Norwegian's wargrave, which I had not previously noted....