Calbost

{{Short description|Village on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

| country = Scotland

| official_name = Calbost

| gaelic_name = Calabost

| label_position = bottom

| static_image_name = Lochan and houses near Calbost - geograph.org.uk - 926389.jpg

| static_image_caption = Lochan and houses at the south of Calbost

| population =

| language = Scottish Gaelic

| language1 = English

| os_grid_reference = NB412172

| coordinates = {{coord|58.069|-06.388|display=inline,title}}

| civil_parish = Lochs

| unitary_scotland = Na h-Eileanan Siar

| lieutenancy_scotland = Western Isles

| constituency_scottish_parliament = Na h-Eileanan an Iar

| constituency_westminster = Na h-Eileanan an Iar

| post_town = ISLE OF LEWIS

| postcode_area = HS

| postcode_district = HS2

| dial_code = 01851

}}

Calbost ({{langx|gd|Calabost}}) is a village on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Calbost is within the parish of Lochs,{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/towndetails8724.html|title=Details of Calbost|publisher=Scottish Places|accessdate=24 December 2014}} and within the district of Pairc.{{cite web|url=http://www.hebrideanconnections.com/locations/369|title=Calbost|publisher=Hebridean Connections|accessdate=24 December 2014}}

Calbost is known for its pretty scenery and lively fishing scene.

On November 16, 1939, the British merchant ship S.S. Arlington Court was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by the crew of the German submarine U-43.[https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ship/95.html#:~:text=At%2014.07%20hours%20on%2016,and%20sank%20in%2030%20minutes. S.S. Arlington Court] In his Scottish Gaelic language poem Calum Moireasdan an Arlington Court ("Calum Morrison of the Arlington Court"), North Uist war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna paid tribute to the courage shown by one of the survivors, a seventeen year old merchant seaman from Calbost. Calum Morrison had been the only survivor in his lifeboat who had known how to sail and had managed to pilot their lifeboat eastwards for five days, until he and his fellow survivors were rescued at the mouth of the English Channel.Domhnall Ruadh Choruna: Òran is Dain le Dòmhnall Dòmhnallach a Uibhist a Tuath, Edited by Fred Macauley. Commun Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath, (1995), pages 106-109.

The Angus Macleod Archive, which contains much historical writing, photographs and recordings of the village and the South Lochs area, was originally kept at a museum in Calbost,{{cite web|url=https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/crofting-history-brought-back-to-life/|title=Crofting history brought back to life|publisher=University of St Andrews|date=14 November 2005|accessdate=24 December 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.stackwalker.org/quote/3949|title=John Randall|publisher=Stackwalker|accessdate=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224210423/http://www.stackwalker.org/quote/3949|archive-date=24 December 2014|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.stackwalker.org/entry/318|title=Original site of Angus Macleod's museum|publisher=Stackwalker|accessdate=24 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224210836/http://www.stackwalker.org/entry/318|archive-date=24 December 2014|url-status=dead}} and is now kept in Kershader. Many of the artefacts from the museum are now in the keeping of the Museum nan Eilean in Stornoway.