Scotland has over 6,000 miles of rugged coastline. Nowhere on shore is more than 45 miles from tidal waters, and seven of the biggest towns and cities are seaports. No wonder, then, that the sea has shaped Scotland and Scots have helped to shape maritime history, trade and communications. Scots and the Sea is an intriguing account of this continuing interaction. It takes a look at some of the peronalities involved; at the courage and endurance of fisherman and their families, and the individual brilliance of Admiral Cochrane, who helped establish free nations across the globe; at the self-serving activities of pirates like Captain Kidd and the bravery of lifeboat volunteers. It visits ports, harbours and shipyards and looks at Scotland's role in ship construction and marine engineering from the galleys and longships of early history to clippers, steamships, ocean liners, hovercraft and oilrigs- and research into wave and tidal power. The book details the origins of Scotland's maritime traditions, the founding of a Scottish navy, the pressures towards Union, development of trade, ports, harbours, Shipbuilding and marine engineering and acts of courage at sea. It also recounts the e

Author Biography

James Davidson served as a Naval Officer in the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Present in Tokyo Harbour at the Japanese surrender in 1945, he has Assistant Naval Attache in Moscow at the time of Stalin's death.