Tour Scotland Video Bagpiper St Monans June 11th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of a Scottish Bagpiper and the Sea Queen at St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Sea Queen being led along the main pier into St Monans by a Scottish Bagpiper. lots of rain this morning in St Monans, not an easy day to shoot great videos.

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Tour Scotland Video Sea Queen Day St Monans June 11th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of Sea Queen Day at St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Sea Queen and Royal Party arriving on the restored antique herring drifter Reaper, accompanied by the Anstruther Life Boat. Heavy rain this morning in St Monans.

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Tour Scotland Video Coastal Rowers Anstruther June 11th

Tour Scotland video clip shot this morning of coastal rowers leaving Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. These coastal rowers heading for St Monans to take part in the St Monans Sea Queen Gala Day. Aye, they are hardy Scots in the village in which I was raised in Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Video Lifeboat Anstruther June 11th

Tour Scotland video clip shot this morning of the Kingdom of Fife Lifeboat leaving Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The Anstruther lifeboat was heading for St Monans to take part in the St Monans Sea Queen Gala Day. As this is the village in which I was raised in Scotland, I am an avid supporter of the RNLI.

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Lifeboat Heroes. Outstanding RNLI Rescues From Three Centuries. The RNLI is at the forefront of saving lives around Britain's coasts. Putting to sea in all weathers, its crews are on duty 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Edward Wake-Walker describes 16 dramatic rescues spanning 200 years in the RNLI's distinguished history. The earliest story is that of Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, who rescued all 17 crew and passengers from the Fortroendet aground in 1827. A more recent account concerns helicopter winch man, Bill Deacon, who died after saving the last ten men from the freighter Green Lily in a hurricane in 1997, and coxswain Hewitt Clark who brought his lifeboat alongside the ship and saved five of her crew. Lifeboat Heroes: Outstanding RNLI Rescues From Three Centuries (Lifeboats)

Tour Scotland Video Reaper Herring Drifter Anstruther June 11th

Tour Scotland video shot this morning of the Reaper Herring Drifter leaving Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. A rainy morning in Anstruther, the wonderful East Neuk fishing village in the Kingdom of Fife, just 9 miles South of St Andrews, where I was raised in Scotland. The boat was going to St Monans this morning, just a few miles from Anstruther, on board was the Sea Queen for this year for the village of St Monans.

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Recollections of East Fife Fisher folk. During the early part of the 20th century, fishing still formed one of the main industries in the famous corner of Fife. Belle Patrick spent her first 30 years in Anstruther, and in the mid 1960s wrote this memoir to put on record the fishing way of life, believing it to be so independent. Recollections of East Fife Fisher-folk.