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Herring barrels waiting to be loaded onto a ship, Papa Stronsay, c.1938.

S.S. Dalalfven loading herring barrels at Sinclair & Buchan's pier, Papa Stronsay, c.1938.

Gutting fish on board a fishing boat at Stromness pier, date unknown.

MISSING - Shipping in Stromness Harbour, date unknown.

The Queen Mother arriving at Kirkwall Airport during a visit to open the King George V Playing Fields at Pickaquoy, 9th August 1956.

Gutting fish on board a fishing boat at Stromness pier, date unknown.

Fishing boat at an unidentified port, not Orkney. Date unknown.

Foreman Willie Cooper and others packing 5000 lobsters at the Fisherman's Society, Stromness, for shipment by chartered aeroplane to France. See Orcadian 7/9/1961, page 3.

Packing lobsters for shipment south, Stromness. Date unknown.

Loading 3 tons of lobsters on to a British European Airways plane at Kirkwall Airport. They were transported directly to France, 1959. See Orcadian 29/10/1959, page 5.