Another Castle (Part Two)

Finally, the second part of my visit to a second coastal castle a few weeks ago. Whilst the previous part focused on the keep. this bit concentrates on the ramparts, (I think that's the right term), and the small exhibition of the site's days as a seaplane/flying boat base.



Toward the end there are several pictures and models of the ill-fated Saunders Roe Princess flying boats on display. This huge aircraft was developed in the early 1950s, when flying boats were already anachronistic. Only three were ever built, and of these. only a single example ever flew. Without any buyers, either military or civil, the three aircraft were eventually cocooned in plastic and put into storage. The two incomplete examples were hauled out of the water and stored just below the castle for more than a decade before being scrapped. A sad end for a beautiful, if redundant, piece of engineering.