Newhaven Harbour

This guide to Newhaven Harbour in Edinburgh follows the name behind a small modern rowing skiff, the Wee Michael, back to the Great Michael, the enormous royal warship King James the Fourth had built at a Newhaven dockyard in 1511. You'll hear what became of that ship after only a few years of service, and how the harbour later turned to oysters and herring under its Free Fishermen and their fishwives. The guide traces the thread from that royal shipyard to the rowing club that launches from the same slipway today.