Tour Scotland Travel Video Outlander Location The Ship That Never Sailed Firth of Forth

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a 15th century fortress, near the village of Blackness, on ancestry visit to the south shore of the Firth of Forth, Scotland. It was built, probably on the site of an earlier fort, by Sir George Crichton in the 1440. This 15th century castle overlooking the Firth of Forth is used as the setting for Black Jack Randall's Fort William headquarters in the Outlander series. Because of its site, jutting into the Forth, and its long, narrow shape, the castle has been characterised as " the ship that never sailed ". The north and south towers are often named " stem " and " stern ", with the central tower called the "main mast. "

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