Two traditionally rigged tall ships crewed by a rotating team of 70 wounded, injured and sick (WIS) veterans and serving personnel, will sail into Stromness, as part of a UK expedition. The voyage, coordinated by local veteran sailing charity Turn to Starboard and delivered in partnership with Invictus Games Birmingham 2027, aims to raise £300,000 so the […]
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A Kirkwall audience will get a look into the life of one of Orkney’s aviation pioneers. John Rae was a pilot with Scotland’s first civil air service, the short lived Midland and Scottish Air Ferries Ltd. before joining Ted Fresson’s Highland Airways, which ran the first air mail route between Orkney and the Scottish mainland. […]
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