If we turn back the pages of maritime history during the past couple of centuries or so we will find that Manx skippers and sailors played a notable part in…
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Update 21/12/19: It seems there is a query and this may not be a high tide marker after all as someone has said it is an OS datum marker so…
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This dramatic oil painting, ‘The Wreck of the St George‘ illustrates a most epic rescue at sea. On Friday November 19, 1830, under the command of Lieutenant John Tudor R.N.,…
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Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north of The Sound, is a place called Lhiondaig Phollinag, or the Mermaids’ Green or Garden, and the tradition is that…
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Enter Cutlar Mac Culloch, a powerful rover from Galloway who made repeated excursions into the northern parts of the Isle of Man around 1507. He would carry off all that…
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It was Midsummer Day, and the Peel Herring Fleet, with sails half set, was ready for sea. The men had their barley sown, and their potatoes down, and now their…
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Superstitious as were the Manxmen whose occupations were on land, they were surpassed by the Manxmen whose occupation was on the sea. Proof of this is afforded by the following…
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Under the Chasms, on the shore, is a well near the sea. The salt water comes into it at high tide, but when it is ebbing the fresh water spring…