There was a story popular many years ago among the old salts in David MacBrayne’s Theet of west coast steamers (now CalMac) about a party of young women from the islands travelling to the Clyde in search of employment and potential husbands.
During the journey, one of them was re-reading her character reference from the local clergyman, without which she was unlikely to find work, when a gust of wind blew it out of her hand and away it Thew into the Minch.