Hi, Edward, Nothing wrong with your memory! There is a long tradition of Orkney ships trading up and down the west coast of Scotland. My father often mentioned them coming into Loch Broom. They were called FLOATING shops ( accent on floating ), possibly to distinguish them from shops that didn't!! In some west highland communities there are families with Orkadian names whose forebears arrived in connection with the floating shops. It's never mentioned in the local histories "down here ", but I believe there is quite a lot of info to be found in Orkney. Must dig sometime. Regards, Fraser MacKenzie, Sutherland.