2004
Iain Peterson
(1934 - 2006)
Captain Iain Peterson is best remembered as a great composer, fiddler, piper, publisher and all round gentleman. Born in Leith, Iain hardly had a chance to know his Shetland born seafaring and fiddling father Laurence, who was killed in May 1940 when the MV Abbotsford was torpedoed by the German submarine U14 off Lowestoft on the Norfolk coast while making the crossing from Ghent to Grangemouth. His mum, Catherine, decided to move back to her native Ardnamurchan. Iain went to sea in 1954 as a deckhand and by 1965 had worked his way up through the ranks to obtain his “Foreign Going” Master’s Certificate. In 1970 He took command of the Cape Race, a bulk carrier, transporting bauxite and alumina from the mines in Jamaica to the St Lawrence River in Quebec. In 1974 he transferred ashore to the Forth River Pilotage. Iain registered the Shian Music label in 1968 and went on over the next 35 years to publish 172 of his own compositions.
Iain Peterson
(1934 - 2006)
Captain Iain Peterson is best remembered as a great composer, fiddler, piper, publisher and all round gentleman. Born in Leith, Iain hardly had a chance to know his Shetland born seafaring and fiddling father Laurence, who was killed in May 1940 when the MV Abbotsford was torpedoed by the German submarine U14 off Lowestoft on the Norfolk coast while making the crossing from Ghent to Grangemouth. His mum, Catherine, decided to move back to her native Ardnamurchan. Iain went to sea in 1954 as a deckhand and by 1965 had worked his way up through the ranks to obtain his “Foreign Going” Master’s Certificate. In 1970 He took command of the Cape Race, a bulk carrier, transporting bauxite and alumina from the mines in Jamaica to the St Lawrence River in Quebec. In 1974 he transferred ashore to the Forth River Pilotage. Iain registered the Shian Music label in 1968 and went on over the next 35 years to publish 172 of his own compositions.