General view.

Description General view.

Date c. 1898

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 743235

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1742

Scope and Content Harbour, Scarinish, Tiree, Argyll & Bute Scarinish, a small settlement on the east coast of Tiree, was developed in the mid-18th century by the 5th Duke of Argyll as a fishing village and the island's first harbour. This photograph of the harbour, taken c.1898, is by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The harbour provided a safe mooring for the island's open, single-masted fishing boats (smacks) and the rowing boats that transferred goods and passengers from larger vessels and steamships anchored offshore. The pier (foreground), an L-plan structure of drystone rubble, was built in 1771, and the Scarinish Hotel, a plain, two-storeyed, harled and whitewashed building on the opposite side of the harbour, dates from the mid 19th century. Tiree, the outermost of Argyll's islands, lies immediately south-west of Coll. Its rocky coastline is interrupted by a succession of magnificent and expansive sandy beaches, and it is both the sunniest and windiest place in Britain. However, the island suffers from a comparative lack of good harbours, and, apart from the harbour at Scarinish, most sites for jetties have proved to be either too exposed, too dangerous to approach or too small, and few of the sandy bays have provided sufficient shelter and holding-ground to make them safe anchorages. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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