1918 in Scotland
1918 in Scotland |
Years |
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1917-18 in Scottish football |
1918-19 in Scottish football |
Events from 1918 in Scotland
Incumbents
Events
- 31 January - "Battle of May Island": In a confused series of collisions as a large Royal Navy fleet steams down the Firth of Forth this evening, submarines HMS K4 and HMS K17 are sunk, three other submarines and a light cruiser are damaged and 104 men are killed.[1]
- May - English industrialist William Lever, Baron Leverhulme, buys the Isle of Lewis.
- 15 May - World War I: Imperial German Navy submarine SM U-90 shells the Royal Navy wireless station on Hirta in St Kilda.[2]
- 29 June - Airship R27, built by William Beardmore and Company at Inchinnan (Renfrewshire), is commissioned.
- 22 August - HMS Hood (51) is launched by John Brown & Company at their Clydebank shipyard. The last battlecruiser built for the Royal Navy, she will be in commission from 1920 to 1941.
- 5 November - Former Cunarder HMS Campania sinks in an accident in the Firth of Forth.
- 11 November - World War I is ended by Armistice at Compiègne, with Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss as British representative. The War has seen Scottish losses of 110,000 lives; equivalent to 10% of the country's male population aged between 16 and 50.[3]
- 25–27 November - The surrendered German High Seas Fleet steams from a rendezvous in the Firth of Forth to internment in Scapa Flow.[4]
- The Scottish county of Elginshire is officially renamed as the County of Moray (Morayshire).
Births
- 1 February - Muriel Spark, novelist (died 2006)
- 28 May - Jackie Husband, international footballer (died 1992)
- 28 June - William Whitelaw, Conservative politician (died 1999 in England)
- 30 June - Isobel Barnett, née Marshall, broadcasting personality (suicide 1980 in England)
- 21 July - Maurice Lindsay, broadcaster, writer and poet (died 2009)
Deaths
- 13 January - Aeneas Chisholm, Roman Catholic Bishop of Aberdeen (born 1836)
- 15 January - Mark Sheridan, music hall performer, probable suicide (born 1864 in England)
- 6 February - John F. McIntosh, steam locomotive engineer (born 1846)
- 30 June - Peter Drummond, steam locomotive engineer (born 1850)
- 26 November - George Coats, 1st Baron Glentanar, cotton manufacturer (born 1849)
The Arts
- Ewart Alan Mackintosh's poetry War, The Liberator, and Other Pieces is published posthumously.
See also
References
- ↑ ""Battle of May Island" remembered". UK Defence Today. Ministry of Defence. 2002-01-30. Archived from the original on 2002-02-02. Retrieved 2010-02-10.
- ↑ "U 90 und die Beschießung von St. Kilda". Das Marine Nachrichtenblatt.
- ↑ "Notable Dates in History". The Flag in the Wind. The Scots Independent. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ Marder, Arthur J. (1970). From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow V. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-215187-8.
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