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41HMS Vanguard (1909) — The eighth HMS Vanguard of the British Royal Navy was a St Vincent class battleship, an enhancement of the Dreadnought design built by Vickers at Barrow in Furness. She was designed and built during the Anglo German naval race and spent her life… …
42George Mackay Brown — (17 October 1921 13 April 1996), was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character.Born in Stromness in the Orkney Islands, Mackay Brown is considered one of the great Scottish poets of the 20th century.… …
43Italian Chapel — The Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney, Scotland, was built by Italian prisoners of war captured in Africa during World War II. The prisoners were stationed on the island between 1942 and 1945 to help in construction of the Churchill Barriers… …
44SS Norge — was a Danish passenger liner sailing from Copenhagen, Oslo and Kristiansand to New York, mainly with emigrants, which sank off Rockall in 1904 in the biggest civilian maritime disaster in the Atlantic Ocean up to that time.She was built in 1881… …
45Nuckelavee — The Nuckelavee (or Nuckalavee) is a creature from Orcadian folklore. The name is a corruption of the Orcadian name knoggelvi , which in turn seems to be a variant of the Nokk or Nuggle , and is thus related to the Icelandic Nykur. [1] A creature… …
46Donald Hewlett — Born Donald Marland Hewlett 30 August 1920(1920 08 30) Northenden, Manchester, England Died 4 June 2011(2011 06 04) (aged 90) Chelsea and Westminster Hospital …
47Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer — The Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (Latin: Filii Sanctissimi Redemptoris , Latin siglum: F.SS.R.), formerly the Transalpine Redemptorists, [ [http://papastronsay.blogspot.com/2008/07/no more servants but sons gal iv7.html Transalpine… …
48Battle of Carbisdale — Infobox Military Conflict conflict= Wars of the Three Kingdoms partof= Scottish Civil War caption=Ardvreck Castle where Montrose surrendered to Neil Macleod of Assyant after the Battle of Carbisdale date= 27 April 1650 place= Scroggie Wood, Ross… …
49Robert Charles Wallace — Infobox Person name=Robert Charles Wallace image size = 150px birth date=birth date|1881|6|15|mf=y birth place=Orkney, Scotland death date=death date and age|1955|1|29|1881|6|15|mf=y death place=Alberta, CanadaRobert Charles Wallace, CMG, BA, BSc …
50Walter Traill Dennison — (1826 1894) was a farmer and folklorist. He was a native of the Orkney island of Sanday, in Scotland, United Kingdom, where he collected local folk tales. He published these, many in the local Orcadian dialect, in 1880 under the title The… …
