Clinker

Clinker

Traditional wooden clinker built by

craftedobjects,scotlandobjects,highlandandislands

1930

iain

Physical Object

570

19/08/2025

Macdonald, M., & MacLeod, D. J. (2018). The Darkest Dawn . Stornoway : Accair

cm x cm x cm

TEXT

https://culturality.museum/wiki/index.php/Clinker

1179

Wood

Cultural

woodwork,metalwork

Hand tools: Hand chisels / Hand planes / Hand Drills. This boat was bulit prior to power tools being designed and produced.

Scotland

Hand built by a boat builder

Used as a fising vessel.

Fishing vessel to catch fish for consumption / sale

One to one bespoke production

This boat was used as a rowing boat for fishing. There are line marks worn into to the wood from fishing lines. This boat has particular cultural significnace having been built by the late John Finlay Macleod, father of John Murdo Macleod, who built Jubilee (see AAS_AR_05). This boat is now owed by a grandson of the late John Finlay Macleod. On New Years day, 1919, a ship transorting men home from the first world war sunk off the coastline of Stornoway. The loss of life on the 'Iolaire' had a profound affect of on the communities throughout Lewis. John Finlay Macleod was a survivor of the shipwreck and survived by swimming ashore, with a rope, which helped to save the lives of other men.

AAS_AR_10