Soay Sea Monster
Soay Sea Monster: Top left: A copy of a drawing made by Mr. Tex Geddes, an ex-Harpoon Gunner, immediately after sighting what he believes to be an unidentified animal seen off Soay (an island just off the coast of Skye, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland) last September. Top right: A copy of a drawing madein November of the same creature by Mr. James Gavin, a Chief Engineering Inspector, who was with Mr. Geddes at the time. Lower image: An artists drawing based solely on the written description submitted by Mr. Tex Geddes. Mr. Gavin felt the body was a fair representation, but that the head should be more tortoise-like and cannot be certain about the scales
Picture No
14028996
Media ID
46818468
Size
4533px x 5031px
(3.7MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Drawing in The Illustrated London News', 4 June 1960, page 972
Date
1960
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