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1953 in Scotland

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Events from the year 1953 in Scotland.

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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.{{cite web|title=Clan Macquarrie – historic rescue at Borve|url=http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/leisure/clan-macquarrie-historic-rescue-at-borve-1-118252|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726212701/http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/leisure/clan-macquarrie-historic-rescue-at-borve-1-118252|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 July 2014|work=Stornoway Gazette|access-date=2014-07-22}}
  • 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.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/31/newsid_2505000/2505913.stm|title=130 die in ferry disaster|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|access-date=2008-01-10|date=31 January 1953|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080108160829/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/31/newsid_2505000/2505913.stm|archive-date=2008-01-08|url-status=live}} Fleetwood trawler Michael Griffiths sinks seven miles south of Barra Head with the loss of 13 crew.
  • 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.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2846000/2846801.stm|title=Queen launches Royal Yacht Britannia|publisher=BBC|work=On This Day|access-date=2008-01-10|date=16 April 1953|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080121004217/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16/newsid_2846000/2846801.stm|archive-date=2008-01-21|url-status=live}}
  • 20 May – Celtic F.C. beat Hibernian 2-0 in the final of the Coronation Cup (football) at Hampden Park.{{cite news|title=The green shoots of recovery with Hibs|newspaper=Scotland On Sunday|date=2005-09-10}}
  • 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{{cite web|title=Notable Dates in History |url=http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |work=The Flag in the Wind |publisher=The Scots Independent |access-date=2014-07-22 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523225830/http://www.scotsindependent.org/dates1-g.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014 }} 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.{{cite web|title=Great Bernera Bridge|url=http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/eriskay/bernera.htm#|access-date=2014-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111023235/http://www.cne-siar.gov.uk/eriskay/bernera.htm|archive-date=11 November 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
  • 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.{{cite web|title=Accident at Abington on 8th August 1953|work=Railways Archive|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.php?eventID=238|access-date=2014-07-22}}
  • 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.

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