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RosythRosyth was planned as a garden city to house the workers of the naval base and dockyard built here with work starting in 1909 and was officially opened until 1915, but not completed until the following year. The first vessel to be repaired, HMS Zealandia, entered the dock in 1916. Over the years the base was used for refitting conventional and nuclear powered submarines and various surface vessels, e.g. frigates, minesweepers, etc.
Rosyth Castle consists of a square tower, which dates from the sixteenth century, with other buildings added later - these are now ruined. A doocot stands nearby. |
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It is now used as a port for
ferry crossings to Zeebrugge in Belgium with the crossing taking about seventeen
and a half hours.
