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Leaving Oban Bay, Scotland - Training Sailing Ship
Taken with a Yashica 35mm Film Camera in October 1971 and scanned from the slide.
To the far left of the sailing ship out of sight is Horseshoe Bay on Kerrera where King Alexander II of Scoltand assembled his fleet in 1249 to recapture the island and the rest of the Hebrides from the Norse Vikings who occupied them. He died of natural causes after setting up camp in the fields surrounding the Bay. The invasion of the Hebrides was abandoned at this point.
Fourteen years later in 1263 the Vikings assembled in Horseshoe Bay with 120 longship galleys headed up by the King of Norway, leading his men to the Battle of Largs, which, although short and swift, they lost to the Scots, whose King was now Alexander's son, Alexander III. The Norwegian King sailed back north to Horseshoe Bay for assembly before returning to Norway. A few years later after many skirmishes, the Norwegians signed the Hebrides / Western Isles over to the Scots and Scotland.
Ardentrive Bay, Kerrera to the right of the sailing ship was the home of a Sunderland Flying Boat Squadron during WWII in the early 1940's and at the forefront of the Battle of the Atlantic from their RAF HQ at Dungallan Road in Oban about a mile across the water. From here they helped to protect the convoys assembling to travel to the US and Russia from the Firth of Lorne, the passage of water between Kerrera in the background of the picture and the Isle of Mull behind it. Their nearest air threat as they gathered was from bombers based in Stavanger, Norway, which had been captured by the Germans. However the range was slightly too far to be a major danger. The main threat for the convoys was from U-Boats lurking around the Scottish Atlantic coast and as a result the area surrounding Oban and Kerrera was protected by anti-submarine protector cable loops.
Today Horseshoe, Ardentrive and Oban Bays are used mainly by yachts and motor boats for sailing, recreation and tourism, while the route through Oban Bay is the main passage for the MacBraynes 'Roll On Roll Off' Car Ferries based in Oban, travelling to the Western Isles. They carry mostly tourists and their cars but the routes are also the main highways as in Viking times for trade, provisions, communications and travel for local people.
Leaving Oban Bay, Scotland - Training Sailing Ship
Taken with a Yashica 35mm Film Camera in October 1971 and scanned from the slide.
To the far left of the sailing ship out of sight is Horseshoe Bay on Kerrera where King Alexander II of Scoltand assembled his fleet in 1249 to recapture the island and the rest of the Hebrides from the Norse Vikings who occupied them. He died of natural causes after setting up camp in the fields surrounding the Bay. The invasion of the Hebrides was abandoned at this point.
Fourteen years later in 1263 the Vikings assembled in Horseshoe Bay with 120 longship galleys headed up by the King of Norway, leading his men to the Battle of Largs, which, although short and swift, they lost to the Scots, whose King was now Alexander's son, Alexander III. The Norwegian King sailed back north to Horseshoe Bay for assembly before returning to Norway. A few years later after many skirmishes, the Norwegians signed the Hebrides / Western Isles over to the Scots and Scotland.
Ardentrive Bay, Kerrera to the right of the sailing ship was the home of a Sunderland Flying Boat Squadron during WWII in the early 1940's and at the forefront of the Battle of the Atlantic from their RAF HQ at Dungallan Road in Oban about a mile across the water. From here they helped to protect the convoys assembling to travel to the US and Russia from the Firth of Lorne, the passage of water between Kerrera in the background of the picture and the Isle of Mull behind it. Their nearest air threat as they gathered was from bombers based in Stavanger, Norway, which had been captured by the Germans. However the range was slightly too far to be a major danger. The main threat for the convoys was from U-Boats lurking around the Scottish Atlantic coast and as a result the area surrounding Oban and Kerrera was protected by anti-submarine protector cable loops.
Today Horseshoe, Ardentrive and Oban Bays are used mainly by yachts and motor boats for sailing, recreation and tourism, while the route through Oban Bay is the main passage for the MacBraynes 'Roll On Roll Off' Car Ferries based in Oban, travelling to the Western Isles. They carry mostly tourists and their cars but the routes are also the main highways as in Viking times for trade, provisions, communications and travel for local people.