St Abb's Head On Visit To Coast Of Berwickshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the cliffs by the sea at St Abb's Head on ancestry visit to a a rocky promontory on the coast of Berwickshire, Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhearaig. A signal station was established on the cliffs here before 1820 and the facilities were shared by Trinity House and Her Majesty's Coastguard. The Northern Lighthouse Board recommended the building of a lighthouse at St Abb's Head after the sinking of the Martello on Carr Rock in 1857. The lighthouse was designed and built by the brothers David Stevenson and Thomas Stevenson and assisted navigation before and after sight of the Bell Rock and Isle of May lights disappeared from view. Despite the lighthouse, several ships have been lost on the jagged coastline off St. Abbs. The cargo ship MV Nyon ran aground on 16 November 1958 in dense fog. The crew was rescued ship was beached on rocks but the stern was successfully separated and salvaged, eventually towed to the Netherlands where it was rebuilt with a new front section. Royal Navy Scout Cruiser HMS Pathfinder, the first vessel to be destroyed by a self-propelled torpedo, sunk off St. Abbs Head on 5 September 1914 with the loss of 259 lives, having been attacked by German U-boat, SM U-21. The explosion that destroyed the ship was witnessed by author Aldous Huxley who was staying in St. Abbs at the time. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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