Scotia Postcard £4 plus £1 p&p
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 R.M.S. “SCOTIA” passing Kish Lightship, Dublin Bay. London Midland & Scottish Railway. Sunk by enemy action off Dunkirk, 1^st June 1940. Painting by Norman Wilkinson. Reproduced by permission of the Keeper, National Railway Museum, York. Issued by the Holyhead Maritime Museum sold exclusively in the museum (now out of print) limited stock only.  

The Ancestry, Life and Times of Commander John MacGregor Skinner R.N. £12.50 plus £3p&pWritten by Peter Scott Roberts.
Hard Back
This book briefly examines Skinners ancestry before the family were forced to leave Scotland, after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. Glimpses of where they settled in the New World and how influential they became in shaping the community. The book also looks at the high profile the Skinner family took in the American War of Independence 1776. Their return to Britain after the war, and how the family faired afterwards.
Finally the book covers the life of Commander John MacGregor Skinner R.N. from his early naval career in North America to his tragic death off the coast of Holyhead in 1832.

Torpedoed! The R.M.S. Leinster Disaster £15.99 plus £3p&p.
Written by Philip Lecane
The long forgotten story of the sinking of the R.M.S. Leinster in the dying days of the First World War is brought back to life in this intriguing tale of the disaster.
Torpedoed by the German submarine UB-123. 501 of the 771 people on board were killed, marking the event as the worst maritime tragedy ever witnessed in the Irish Sea.
The Leinster carried civilian passengers, postal workers, and military personnel from Ireland, Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia as such its loss had an impact around the globe.
This remarkable book tells the stories of those on board the Leinster and UB-123 and sympathetically examines not only the sinking but also its ramifications for those left behind. A well researched work, this book will appeal to any with an interest in the sea as well as military and maritime historians and genealogists.

 Trains and Boats and Planes £12 plus £3p&p.
Written by Gareth Rowlands & Alf Pritchard
Paperback
When ever I’m away from Holyhead for any length of time I often think of the song from 1965 “Trains and Boats and Planes” written by Burt Bacharach and sung by Billy J. Kramer. This book is mainly about these three different modes of travel and how the first two, in particular, have influenced the development of the port and town of Holyhead.Gareth Rowlands
The book is packed with pictures of the town and its people.

No Problem’s Too Small £5.99 plus £2 p&p
Written by Gareth Rowlands
Paperback
The Marine Yard played a central role in the development and daily life of the port and town of Holyhead, with almost every family having some relative working there. On leaving school to become an apprentice at the yard was the ambition of many a young lad.
This book tells the story from when the yard opened in the 1850’s to its closure in 1986. It has numerous pictures and site plans of the yard showing its development over the years.

Master Mariner: Captain William Henry Hughes, DSC £6.99 plus £2p&p.
Written by Dewi B. Francis
Paperback 
The remarkable career of Captain William Henry Hughes began in the era of sail. He first went to sea aged only 12 years, and by the time he was 18 had been shipwrecked three times. He sailed around Cape Horn ten times before setting on a career with the ferries operating to Ireland out of Holyhead. He saw active service during the First World War, came under fire during the Irish troubles in the 1920’s, and led a party of sailors who prevented the Irish Light Ship Alexandra being scuttled. He received two Royal Humane Society Certificates on Vellum for bravery, rescuing people from the Irish Sea.
In 1940, as captain of the requisitioned ferry HMT Scotia he was awarded the DSC for his gallantry during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk.