Old Photograph Fishing Boat Scrabster Harbour Caithness

Old photograph of a fishing boat in the harbour in Scrabster, Caithness, Scotland. Scrabster Harbour was constructed in 1841 to provide deep water anchorage to seafarers and quickly became a key gateway to locations such as Orkney, Shetland, the Faroe Islands and also Scandinavia. Initially the harbour was used primarily as a fishing and ferry port, and by 1856 a ferry link was firmly established between Scrabster and Stromness. During the Second World War, Scrabster harbour was the base for a ferry operation started to carry military explosives to Scapa Flow.



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