Holy Loch

The Tower of Knockdunder still occupies, with its remains, a cliff overhanging the Holy Loch.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

In 1961, in the course of a series of mock attacks by canoeists on the American nuclear submarine base at the Holy Loch, Captain Lanning of the nuclear supply ship, the Proteous, dismissed the demonstrators as a "bunch of goddam eskimos".

Them and Us 2002

Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the United States to use Holy Loch on the Firth of Clyde as a base for nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines.

1959, May 24 2001

The last time I'd seen them together was when Swanson had summoned them up from the Dolphin in the Holy Loch to see to it that I didn't do anything he didn't want me to do.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

When you came aboard the Dolphin in the Holy Loch, both Admiral Garvie and myself were highly suspicious of you.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

"'" The Dolphin returned to its base in the Holy Loch, Scotland, at dawn this morning after carrying out extensive exercises with the Nato naval forces in the eastern Atlantic.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

The story I spun you back in the Holy Loch wasn't all malarkey.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

We had a malfunction in two of our torpedoes -- the newest and more or less untested radio-controlled type -- during the Nato exercises just ended, and Admiral Garvie ordered them all to be removed for inspection when we got back to the Holy Loch.

Ice Station Zebra MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1963

And even up in Holy Loch, the kids cry, "Go away!"

The Little Generals Malvina Reynolds 1962

In the summer of 1889, when we were at Ayr, the late Mr. Alexander Allan, came down for us in his fine steam yacht, the Tigh-na-Mara, and took us up to his hospitable “Hafton House” on the Holy Loch, a few miles below Glasgow.

Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902