Port Righ
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Port Righ
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 12 May 2022
From the Dundee Courier, Thursday 02 September 1937: "Three persons lost their lives when a small sailing boat, the Eagle, was charged and holed by a gigantic basking shark in Port Righ Bay, Carradale, Argyll, yesterday evening. Captain Angus Brown, of the Hay Line steamer Duchess; His brother, Robert Brown, fisherman, Carradale; and Captain Brown's son, Neil, aged 10." Reference: Britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk. (2022). Shark Charges Boat In Scots Bay | Dundee Courier | Thursday 02 September 1937 | British Newspaper Archive. [online] Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000564/19370902/122/0007 [Accessed 26 May 2022].
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Image Location
Latitude
55.585538
Longitude
-5.463864