Eriskay Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
island of the Outer Hebrides in northern Scotland
About Eriskay
Go into a bank in the Outer Hebrides, if you can still find one open, and try to exchange a wad of oily, salt-tinged Jamaican £5 notes. You'll be met at best by suspicious looks, with the teller scurrying away to phone headquarters. Now imagine this in wartime 1941, when Hebrideans did not take holidays in the West Indies and Sandals in Montego Bay was undreamed of. Such was the £3 million treasure ofSS Politicianthat the film versions somehow ignored. This 7900-ton freighter was built in Stockton-on-Tees in 1923 and initially calledSS London Merchant. She was sold in 1935 and renamedPolitician— Polly to her crew — plying to South Africa. She was requisitioned at the onset of the Second World War to join the Atlantic convoys, and on 4 Feb 1941 was sailing north to rendezvous with a convoy
Top Attractions in Eriskay
Explore the best things to see and do in Eriskay:
- ★St Michael's
Where to Eat in Eriskay
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴The Politician
Where to Stay in Eriskay
- 🏨Aird na Haunn
- 🏨An Taigh Mor
- 🏨Oir na Mara
Eriskay Travel Guide Sections
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