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Dunnottar Castle Stonehaven North East Coast Scotland May 19th [01:05]
Tour Scotland video of Dunnottar Castle. A windy day at the ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th to 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages. Dunnottar played a strategic role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, because of the location: it overlooked the shipping lanes to northern Scotland; and is situated on a narrow coastal terrace that controlled land access to the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen during the medieval period. Both the Jacobites and Hanoverians used Dunnottar Fortress. In 1689 during Viscount Dundee's campaign, fourteen suspected Jacobites from Aberdeen were held in the fortress for approximately a year, including George Liddel, professor of mathematics. In 1715 the Dunnotar cannons were utilized by the Jacobites; following this uprising all the possessions of the Earl Mariscal were forfeit, and the fortress was dismantled three years later.
Tags: Dunnottar, Castle, Stonehaven, North, East, Coast, Scotland, Scottish, Sea, Travel, Tourism, Fortress, Medieval
Edinburgh Calton Hill cannon - time lapse #2 [02:05]
Scotland, Edinburgh Calton Hill cannon time lapse #2, music Johannes Brahms - 1872 - Hungarian Dance #5 Quall Qualldesign
Tags: Edinburgh (City), Scotland, Time Lapse (video), Calton, Hill, people, funny
Edinburgh Calton Hill cannon - time lapse [01:31]
Scotland, Edinburgh Calton Hill cannon time lapse, music Gil Lieby (1966)
Tags: Scotland, Edinburgh, Calton Hill, cannon, people, funny, time lapse, Quall, Qualldesign
RRS Discovery, Dundee, Scotland. [03:16]
"Discovery" had coal-fired auxiliary steam engines, but had to rely primarily on sail beause the coal bunkers did not have sufficient capacity to take the ship on long voyages. She was rigged as a bargue. According to Shackleton, the ship was a bad sailer, and carried too much sail aft and not enough forward; while Scott worried that the design of the ship's hull was unsuitable for work in pack ice. The ship had a massively built wooden hull designed to withstand being frozen into the ice. The propeller and rudder could be hoisted out of the way to prevent ice damage. Iron -shod bows were securely raked so that when ramming the ice they would ride up over the margin and crush the ice with deadweight. The Discovery rolled badly in the open sea where the flat shallow hull, built with no protuberances to work well in ice provided minimal stability in heavy seas. The hull was made from five different types of wood to better withstand the compression of the icepack. The keep was made from the trunk of a single eucalyptus tree. Ballast in the hull was created from old iron cannon balls. Ship was rigged for scientific studies. The metallic parts of the forward part of the ship were made from bronze (non-metallic) to include the crew bed rails and anchor links. The British National Antarctic Expedition was acclaimed upon it's return but was also in serious financial trouble, and so in 1905, Discovery was sold to the Hudson's Bay Company who used her as a cargo vessel between ...
Tags: Dundee, discover, robert, scott, earnest, shackleton, angus, ship, boat, history, expetition, road, bridge, river, british, national, artarctic, visitor, attraction, museum, firth, of, tay, anchor, southern, south, mgnetic, pole, happy, mariner, discovery
Shannon the Cannon! [02:27]
The daily 1pm blast from Edinburgh castle
Tags: Edinburgh, Scotland
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