Flitting sheep on the SYLVANUS

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Flitting sheep on the SYLVANUS
Flitting sheep on the SYLVANUS
Flitting sheep on the SYLVANUS
Motor haddock boat LK 171 SYLVANUS at Ham Little, with fourareen being rowed behind. The SYLVANUS was at Foula to flit off sheep to Mainland, where they were to be sold; Lowrie Georgeson, Hamnabreck and family, and Magnie Manson, Hamnabreck, and family, who owned them, were emigrating to Australia. (The SYLVANUS was the largest boat built by Walter Duncan, Burra). The boat returned to Hillswick.
Photo Number
JS00002
Title
Flitting sheep on the SYLVANUS
Date Of Photo
8th September, 1911
Parish
  • Foula
Photographer
  • Smith, J H
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