Frigate Ship Unicorn With Music On History Visit To Victoria Dock Dundee Tayside Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the exterior and interior of the frigate ship Unicorn on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Victoria Dock in Dundee, Tayside. HMS Unicorn is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and " small timber " system of construction. The classic sailing frigate was a fast and powerful warship, and was one of the most successful and charismatic ship designs of the age. She was built for the Royal Navy in peacetime at Chatham Dockyard, Kent, England, and launched in 1824. A superstructure was built over her main deck and she was laid up " in ordinary ", serving as a hulk and a depot ship for most of the next 140 years. Her lack of active duty left her timbers well preserved, and in the 1960s steps were initiated to convert her to a museum ship. In heraldry the unicorn is best known as a symbol of Scotland: the unicorn was believed to be the natural enemy of the lion, a symbol that the English royals had adopted around a hundred years before Two unicorns supported the royal arms of the King of Scots and Duke of Rothesay, and since the 1707 union of England and Scotland, the royal arms of the United Kingdom have been supported by a unicorn along with an English lion. Two versions of the royal arms exist: that used in Scotland gives more emphasis to the Scottish elements, placing the unicorn on the left and giving it a crown, whereas the version used in England and elsewhere gives the English elements more prominence. The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiralling horn projecting from its forehead. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.