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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781841582337

RRP: £25.00

PAGES: 384

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 1, 2003

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Shipwrecks of the North of Scotland

R.N. Baird

This work is a reference guide to shipping losses off the coast of Scotland from Stonehaven northwards to Duncansby Head, then westwards to Cape Wrath and the Minch. Each of the wrecks is listed, under the area in which it went down, with details of its position and history and fate.

R.N. Baird

R. N. Baird was born in Perth. He spent thirty years in the motor industry, first with the Ford Motor Company, for whom he became Fleet Sales Manager for Scotland and Northern Ireland, and then as director of a Ford dealership in Central Scotland. He has been a keen diver for twenty-five years and has had a long-standing interest in shipwrecks. He lives in Dunfermline.

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