KIRKCALDY HARBOUR: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

Traces the story of Kirkcaldy harbour from its sixteenth-century royal connections, through the boom years of commercial shipping, to its recent rescue from dereliction by the international grain ships servicing the huge flour mill. Includes extracts from a first-hand account of John Paul Jones’ American ships in the Forth in 1778; the Kirkcaldy captain on a trade mission to Russia in 1801 when Tsar Paul I was assassinated; and a whaling captain’s description of his ship being frozen up in an Arctic winter.