Tour Scotland photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour at Charlestown, Fife, Scotland. Charlestown was established in 1770 by Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin. The planned village is laid out in the shape of a letter E for Elgin. It was established as a harbour town for the shipment of coal mined on Lord Elgin's Fife estates, and for the production of lime. The harbour's outer basin was built around 1840. Shipbuilding was carried on at Charlestown in the 19th century, as well as shipbreaking. Some of the German Imperial Fleet were brought here from Scapa Flow after World War I to be broken up.
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