A Few Posts Ago,

we mentioned shipwrecks,

one we that we featured was the Loch Sheil, the 'Whiskey Wreck' – 1877, Thorn Island, Pembrokeshire, the 1218 ton rigged sailing ship was carrying gunpowder and a cargo of 7000 cases of beer and whiskey, most was picked up by locals and hidden in cliffs or buried for years, two bottles of whiskey turned up in the roof of a house in 1950, the crew survived and the only casualty was a local who found some of the whiskey and drank himself to death,


then only today we read that two bottles of whiskey that were found from another shipwreck, the 8,000-ton cargo ship the SS Politician which sank off the shores of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in 1941 and inspired the book and film Whisky Galore,


Scotch Whisky Auctions director Bill Mackintosh said: 'everybody loves the idea of the wily islanders diving to the bottom of the wreck and coming back up with bottles of whisky which they would then hide from the customs, 'but it is true that there are only eight which have have been authenticated recently and these are two of those which were sold at Christie's some time ago',

the eight bottles surfaced in 1987 when local man Donald MacPhee from South Uist in the Outer Hebrides explored the wreck and found his liquid treasure, He sold them at auction with Christie's and got £4,000 for his loot, two of those bottles were bought by a man in Fraserburgh in Aberdeenshire, He has recently died and his widow decided to sell them along with the neck tags from Christie's and letters of authentication,


will I be bidding?, no as whiskey is not my tipple but who knows how much these almost unique two bottles will bring?