On 29th August 2020 the St Kilda Club hosted an online event to commemorate the evacuation of St Kilda in 1930. The event was in association with the National Trust for Scotland and was a celebration of St Kildan life and its legacy. There were a range of musicians...
Road Building To get vehicles and equipment to the radar station site, the squadron had to lay four miles of road up steep terrain from the base to the top of Mullach Sgar and Mullach Mor.A 60 foot bridge was built to allow equipment and materials to reach the site of...
LCT L4041 beached in the Village Bay Landing Craft Tank L4041 (RASCV/HMAV Abbeville) ran aground at Village Bay in St Kilda for three days in 1957. It was subsequently refloated. The following photos show the beached craft.Come back soon for Part 4...
Landing craft – the only way to travel! John and the rest of 5004 Airfield Squadron arrived on St Kilda on Landing Craft Tank (LCT) – the winds around the islands made flying in too risky.Travel on, and operation of, a Landing Craft Tank comes, however, with its own...
We are very privileged to be able to share the story of Senior Aircraftman (SAC) John Martin Abbott and his time on St Kilda. John’s family has shared some of his photos and experiences from that time and we will be serialising them on our blog for all to enjoy. John...
Early in 1877 an Austrian ship, the "Peti Dubrivacki", was wrecked off St Kilda. The St Kildans were already short of food but looked after the marooned crew. By early February food supplies were dangerously low and starvation threatened and in desperate situation the...
It was on a very dark night in late April of last year (1976) that I travelled on the army L.T.C. from Loch Carnan to Hirta. On my approach Dun and Conachair were silhouetted against the dark sky and then on entering Village Bay I saw the long row of lights...
2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the St Kilda Mail - the first edition told the story of how it all began, written by the President of the Club in 1977, Alex Warwick... "In June 1958 George and Irene Waterston led the first of the Trust's volunteer working parties...
At 5am this morning, HMS Harebell lowered her whaler. Ship’s log, 29/08/1930: “Embarked the inhabitants of St Kilda, 14 women, 13 men, 15 Children.” Later, “Everyone on board. Hoisted boat. 08.02 hrs Weighed. Proceeded 11.5 knots” With this laconic entry, the...