Who or what is Ousna? To find out you can read the blog I’ve written for the Society of One-Place Studies. Here’s a link to my post. The Society of One-Place Studies is doing the whole A to Z blogging challenge this year (2017). (I’ve now done 4 days out of 26!)
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Rescue of the Ben Barvas, 3 January 1964
On 3 January 1964 the Longhope Lifeboat went to the rescue of the Aberdeen trawler, Ben Barvas. The trawler had gone ashore on Little Skerry, Pentland Skerries, in heavy seas. It was impossible for the lifeboat to go alongside so nine crewmen were rescued by surf or breeches buoy. The trawler Ben Screel rescued the | more…
