- TITLE
- Three skiffs
- EXTERNAL ID
- QZP27_61_37_9
- PLACENAME
- Campbeltown
- OLD COUNTY/PARISH
- ARGYLL: Campbeltown
- PERIOD
- 1890s; 1900s
- CREATOR
- Charles & Dennis MacGrory
- SOURCE
- Argyll and Bute Library & Information Service
- ASSET ID
- 30699
- KEYWORDS
- fishing
trawling
trawls

Three skiffs at the old quayhead in Campbeltown. Skiffs were the small boats used for trawling. They were driven by sail or oars. Two skiffs used a ring-net or trawl to encircle a shoal of fish.
Photographs such as this, showing two almost-identical images, were designed to be used with a stereoscope, a viewing-device which produced a three-dimensional effect
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