OLLASON.—At Cresswell Maternity Hospital, Dumfries, on 15th April 1942, to Mr and Mrs Andrew N. Ollason, Mull ..

... OLLASON.—At Cresswell Maternity Hospital, Dumfries, on 15th April 1942, to Mr and Mrs Andrew N. Ollason, Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, a daughter, SAUNDERS. ~- At St Mary Abbot's Hospital, Kensington. London, on 21st April 1942, to Rena (née MacKinnon) ...

SOLDIERS' ATTEMPT TO GET TO IRELAND

... of having, at the harbour, Drummoro, while acting in concert, stolen a dinghy. It was gtated the keeper of the Mull of Galloway lighthouse heard calls for help coming from the sea. Assistance was sent, and ultimately the accused, who had got into difficuties ...

Published: Sunday 22 August 1943
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 127 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTLAND'S LIGHTHOUSES

... seconds. LITTLE ROSS—I7S ft.—On island at mouth of Kirkcudbright Bay. White flash every 5 seconds, visible for 18 miles. MULL OF GALLOWAY— 325 ft. —On the south-east tip of the peninsula. White light every 22J seconds, visible for 25 miles. Fog signal siren ...

Published: Sunday 07 December 1947
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

The Scottish Border and Galloway BY corniamEß F. • OfiLILAND TEX RILUTXB 01 GALLOWAY As already explained the ..

... The Scottish Border and Galloway BY corniamEß F. • OfiLILAND TEX RILUTXB 01 GALLOWAY As already explained the Rhinns are a T shaped peninsula at the West of Wigionshire, surrounded•on three sides by the sea. They *stretch for twenty-eight miles from Corsewall ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1947
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 923 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ST MERRIEL IN CLYDE TO-DAY

... MERRIEL IN CLYDE TO-DAY Some of the women passengers on board the St Alerriel, which went on fine off Corse wall Lighthouse, Mull of Galloway, were going to Sierre Leone to join their husbands. There were also two nurses, and they attended to members of ...

Published: Sunday 16 December 1945
Newspaper: Sunday Post
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 70 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

always looked upon as good sheltered anchorage in certain gales, and often would be full of schooners, ketches, ..

... Brock is incorrect about the Mull of Kin tyre being the next nearest to the Isle of Man after Burrow Head. Mull Galloway is only 21 miles distant from Point of Ayre, Ross Island about 25 miles, and Heston Isle 33 miles. The Mull of Kintyre is about 80 mileg ...

Published: Wednesday 09 July 1941
Newspaper: Dumfries and Galloway Standard
County: Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 999 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MARRIED SIXTY YEARS

... service routine taking him to the Chickens Rock (Isle of Man) y»e Mull of Galloway, and Corsewall Point. Promotion came to him in due course and found him in charge of the installation at the Mull of Kintyre. Four years there, and on the famous light of SumSurgh ...

Published: Monday 13 July 1942
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 305 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

GALE HITS U.S. SHIP

... Tyne, and c ocean-going salvage tug n left Campbeltown last file i answer to a distress off f rom a sn difficulties to Mull of Galloway, believed ea the Cardiff motor-vessel el (290 tbns). The S.O.S. said: «enj c developed dangerous list; 'I lifeboat. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 January 1948
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 360 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

li \ TII . MAR DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE OBAN HOUSES FOR FAMILIES OF LIGHTHOUSEKEEPERS

... which the Northern Lighthouse Board have been up against for many years . The new housing development will mean th . evacuation of the island of Erraid , southwest of Mull , which is inhabited by the six families of the lighthouse-keepers on Dhu Heartach ...

Published: Friday 06 May 1949
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 933 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DIARY

... departure, but at 12 o'clock on Tuesday morning she struck a reef of rocks within a few hundred yards of the lighthouse on the Mull of Galloway. When she drifted free, the commander at once ran her ashore, as ,she was making water rapidly. When lightened ...

Published: Tuesday 30 July 1946
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 687 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Back To Haunts of Boyhood

... woollen comforts for the troops. Mr. Braid has many interest in-* stones tel! his experamciv. a lighthouse-keeper. While serving the lighthouse on the (Mull of Galloway, the nsos point Scotland, the last war. he spotted large German U-boat through telescope ...

Published: Thursday 06 November 1941
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1622 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SCOTTISH DISTRICT NEWS Edinburgh and South-East Glasgow and West Central and North

... treatment in Edinburgh , so rather than wait for an ambulance . Mrs Hunter drove her husband the 100 miles allnight journey from Galloway . They reached the Infirmary at 3 . 30 a . m ., and he was operated on immediately . HAWICK RjVTES INCREASE . — HawlcU Town ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1945
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2036 | Page: 3 | Tags: none