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Scotland-related events during the year of 1953
Events from the year 1953 in
Scotland .
Incumbents
Law officers
Judiciary
Events
30 January – The cargo vessel Clan MacQuarrie runs aground near
Borve, Lewis in a storm; all 66 crew are rescued by
breeches buoy the following morning.
[1]
31 January – The car ferry
MV Princess Victoria , sailing from
Stranraer to
Larne in
Northern Ireland , sinks in the
Irish Sea in a storm killing 133 people on board.
[2] Fleetwood trawler Michael Griffiths sinks seven miles south of
Barra Head with the loss of 13 crew.
[1]
9 February –
Fraserburgh
life-boat John and Charles Kennedy
capsizes on service: six crew killed.
5 March –
PS Maid of the Loch , the last full-size
paddle steamer built in the UK, is launched on the
River Clyde at
A. & J. Inglis 's Pointhouse Shipyard. On 25 May, she enters excursion service on
Loch Lomond .
c. March – New Bridge Street Bridge across
Peterhead harbour completed, the last
Scherzer rolling lift bridge erected by
Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow.
16 April –
The Queen launches the
Royal Yacht Britannia at
John Brown & Company shipbuilders at
Clydebank .
[3]
20 May –
Celtic F.C. beat
Hibernian 2-0 in the final of the
Coronation Cup (football) at
Hampden Park .
[4]
20 June – Most of the population of the island of
Soay, Skye , moves to the
Isle of Mull .
24 June – First state visit of Queen
Elizabeth II to Scotland since her accession; the
Honours of Scotland are carried before the monarch for the first time since 1822
[5] and presented to her at
St Giles' Cathedral , Edinburgh.
22 July –
Great Bernera is connected to
Lewis by Scotland's first
prestressed concrete girder bridge.
[6]
8 August – The northbound
Royal Scot train derails near
Abington descending from
Beattock Summit due to buckling of track caused by high temperature; 37 are injured.
[7]
27 October –
Arbroath
life-boat Robert Lindsay
capsizes on service: six crew killed.
Scottish law case of
MacCormick v Lord Advocate decides that the right of
Elizabeth II to so
style herself in Scotland is a matter of
royal prerogative .
IBM establishes a manufacturing facility in
Greenock .
Births
1 January –
Maureen Beattie , Irish-born actress
6 January –
Malcolm Young , rock guitarist (died
2017 in Australia )
11 January –
John Sessions , born John Gibb Marshall, actor and comedian (died
2020 )
20 January –
John Robertson , international footballer
27 February –
Gavin Esler , television journalist
6 April –
Patrick Doyle , film composer
6 May
19 May –
Patrick Hodge , lawyer, a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
21 May –
Jim Devine , Labour politician
[8]
22 May –
Andy Nisbet , mountaineer (died
2019 )
23 May –
Ronald Frame , fiction writer
7 June
23 June –
John Stahl , actor (died
2022 )
[9]
24 August –
Sam Torrance , golfer
31 August –
Jimmy McKenna , actor
8 September –
John McGlynn , actor
10 September –
John Thurso , born John Sinclair, businessman and
Liberal Democrat politician
28 September –
Jim Diamond , pop singer-songwriter (died
2015 )
21 October –
Eric Faulkner , pop musician
4 November –
Derek Johnstone , international footballer
12 November –
Calum MacDonald , Celtic rock songwriter and percussionist
22 December –
Gregor Fisher , actor and comedian
Steven Campbell , figurative painter (died
2007 )
Ian Read , businessman
Deaths
The arts
See also
References
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