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Boats

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on vocabulary relating to fishing, 1877

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/53
Scope and Contents

Notes on vocabulary including the Gaelic for timber on a boat and the pilot-fish.

Dates: 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

On Board Boat for Victoria, [British Columbia, Canada], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2528
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small group of men and women sitting on the deck on board the boat bound for Victoria, [British Columbia, Canada] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

On Board Victoria Boat, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2529
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small group of men and women sitting on the deck on board the boat bound for Victoria, [British Columbia, Canada] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill and accompanying story fragment, 13 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/89
Scope and Contents

Place-name note about Bàgh Chlann Neill, that it is at Losaid at Bun at Sruth Obe [Rubh' an Losaid, An Struth, An t-Ob/Leverburgh, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and accompanying story fragment which reads 'Some MacNeills lived here & when they com[menced] a creach they ran away & took their boat to le'.

Dates: 13 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Placename note for Uamh Fear Bhearnaray and accompanying story, 13 July 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/88
Scope and Contents Place-name note for Uamh Fear Bhearnaray [uamh Fear Bhearnaraigh] that it is 'where he his when aft[er] the downfall of the Prince' [Bonnie Prince Charlie] and that it is 'at Liùr and Leab an Amhaistear'. The story tells how he asked his servant for a gun while they were being pursued but the servant refused him the gun as there was 'only 1 ball left' and he wanted to wait until the enemy was nearer but Fear Bheàrnaraigh grabbed the gun and shot it anyway, breaking the oars just as the boat...
Dates: 13 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Riddle for a ship and yawl, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/124
Scope and Contents

Riddle for ship and yawl beginning 'Bo laoigh a sios seach air traigh'.

Dates: 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'An Fhideag Airgid' and accompanying story, 21 May 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/13
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'An Fhideag Airgid' [The Silver Whistle] collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra beginning 'Co sheineas an fhideag airgead, Hi uill uill o'. The song is composed of twelve lines and the text has been scored through in ink. Written transversely across the text in ink is ''B[ook] p[age] Trans[cribed] June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]' while written transveresely in pencil is 'Mor nin Iain ic Dhonuil bhain'. The...
Dates: 21 May 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Thug Mi Gaol Duit' and accompanying note, nd

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW152/14
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Thug Mi Gaol Duit' beginning 'Hù rù rithillin, Ru-a-ro hi rithill in' the first verse beginning 'Thug mi gaol duit, Thug mi gradh duit'. The song is composed of forty lines arranged as fourteen verses made up of couplets and two forms of chorus a long version and a short version. The accompanying note explains how the song is sung with the different choruses. There are annotations to the text mostly indicating alternative words or phrases, separated from the first text by an...
Dates: nd
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of songs belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a yew tree and inheritance, September 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/30
Scope and Contents

Story about a yew tree on Bearnary [Bernera Island, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] that it sheltered a thousand men or twelve boats and that the island was never passed properly from father to son.

Dates: September 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale, 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/44
Scope and Contents Story about 'Alast[air] mor nam marst' of Boisdale [Baghasdal, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, telling how he was so small when he was born that it was difficult to deliver him but when he grew up he 'was as big as two men'. The story also tells how Alasdair was 'the first of the Boisdales' and that two of 'Bois[dale's] lads' dug up a boat that had been 'sunk in a hole between Boi[dale] and...
Dates: 17 January 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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