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A hooked instrument fashioned from wire, for removing a stuck hook from the throat of a fish.

Fisherman's leather sea boot collected by Mrs Mowat from Benny Kirkpatrick of Longhope.

Working model of lightkeeper landing at Chicken Rock lighthouse, made by Mr. Tom Rendall.

Marline spike of walrus tusk, c 228 mm long, roughtly cut and broken at wide end; used by Spence's grandfather at Hudson's Bay, ca 1870s.

Pair of long leather sea-boots, thought to have been made in Flotta.

dry compass in circular wooden box with glass top

Grandfather clock-face - 'John Miller, Stromness', used to indicate the arrival time of St Ola and hung in the harbour office window in the 1960s. The words 'St.

Circular barometer 'Jonchin 17 E Smithfield' in a deep ebonised wooden circular back. Thermometer broken. 

Belonged to Captain James Skinner.

Silver plated tea spoon from the German Fleet. It has a monogram on the back of the handle.

Oil painting of steam tug 'Ferrodanks' owned by the firm 'Cox and Danks' and used, along with others in the raising of the German Fleet from 1924 - 1931.