City Quay

City Quay is a suburb in , . City Quay is situated near the suburb , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights: HMS Unicorn and North Carr Lightship.

Museum
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is a surviving sailing frigate of the successful Leda class, although the original design had been modified by the time that the Unicorn was built, to incorporate a circular stern and "small-timber" system of construction.

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North Carr is the last remaining lightship. She is 101 feet in length, 25 feet in beam and 268 tons. The purpose of the vessel was to warn mariners by sight, light or sound of the dangers of the rocks which are situated 1.7 miles off at the turning point for vessels sailing between the and the .

is a barque-rigged auxiliary steamship built in Dundee, Scotland, for research. Launched in 1901, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dundee city centre and Dundee.

Suburb
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Until the Industrial Revolution, the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of , Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the A991 dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district.

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is an industrial city and port, historically part of county in northeast Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Tay, which here broadens out into the North Sea, and in 2022 had a population of 148,000.

Suburb
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, locally known as Stobie, is a predominantly residential area of , , with a population of 9,963. Originally a small hamlet outside the city boundaries, grew significantly during the Industrial Revolution to accommodate the city's rapidly expanding textile workforce.

City Quay

Latitude
56.46082° or 56° 27′ 39″ north
Longitude
-2.95849° or 2° 57′ 31″ west
Open location code
9C8VF26R+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 591948823
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
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