1917 in Scotland
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1916-17 in Scottish football |
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Events from 1917 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 5 January - Stornoway Gazette first published.
- 29 January - Royal Navy steam-powered submarine HMS K13 sinks on trial in the Gare Loch with the loss of 32 men; 48 are rescued.[1]
- 7 February - The Clyde-built Atlantic liner SS California (1907), homeward bound for Glasgow from New York, is torpedoed and sunk by SM U-85 approaching Ireland. 41 are killed but around 162 survivors return to Glasgow.[1]
- 1 May - Imperial German Navy Zeppelins L 43 and L 45 conduct reconnaissance patrols over the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, patrolling off the Firth of Forth and Aberdeen, respectively.[2]
- 9 July - HMS Vanguard is blown apart by an internal explosion at her moorings in Scapa Flow, Orkney, killing an estimated 843 crew with no survivors.[3]
- 2 August - Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning becomes the first pilot to land his aircraft on a ship[4] when he lands his Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious in Scapa Flow but is killed five days later during another landing on the ship.
- 23 August - Start of lockout at Pullars dyeing works in Perth.[5]
- October - First North British Railway C Class steam locomotives are allocated for loan to the Royal Engineers' Railway Operating Division on the Western Front.
- 3 December - Strathmore meteorite falls in Perthshire.[6]
Births
- 10 June - Ruari McLean, typographic designer (died 2006)
- 16 October - Murray MacLehose, Governor of Hong Kong (died 2000)
Deaths
- 1 December - George Henry Tatham Paton, army captain, posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, mortally wounded in action in France (born 1895)
- 27 December - George Diamandy, Romanian revolutionary socialist politician, social scientist, dramatist, journalist, diplomat, archaeologist and landowner, died and buried at sea off Shetland (born 1867 in Romania)
The Arts
- 17 August - One of English literature's most important and famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.
- Joseph Lee (who is made a prisoner of war later this year) publishes the poetry collection Work-a-Day Warriors.
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh (who is killed on 23 November in the Battle of Cambrai) publishes A Highland Regiment and Other Poems.
- Doric dialect poet and soldier Charles Murray publishes The Sough o' War.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ Whitehouse, Arch (1966). The Zeppelin Fighters. New York: Ace Books. p. 183-184.
- ↑ Flett, Brian (11 July 2002). "Research puts Vanguard loss at 843". The Orcadian. Retrieved 2013-05-19.
- ↑ HMS Furious 1917.
- ↑ "Pullars of Perth". Perthshire Diary. 1917-09-19. Retrieved 2014-03-21.
- ↑ "The Strathmore Meteorite". Perth & Kinross Council. 2013-08-05. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
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