Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old Photograph HMS Dumbarton Castle Forth Bridge Scotland
Old photograph of HMS Dumbarton Castle under the Forth Railway Bridge near North Queensferry, Fife, Scotland. HMS Dumbarton Castle, K388, was a Castle class corvette of the Royal Navy. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War. The modern corvette appeared during World War II as an easily built patrol and convoy escort vessel. The British naval designer William Reed drew up a small ship based on the single shaft Smiths Dock Company whale catcher Southern Pride, whose simple design and mercantile construction standards lent itself to rapid production in large numbers in small yards unused to naval work. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, later Prime Minister, had a hand in reviving the name corvette.
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