HMS Unicorn

HMS Unicorn 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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  • Opening hours:
    Tuesday—Sunday: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
    December 23rd—January 3rd: closed
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: 1824 Leda-class fifth-rate frigate
  • Address: Victoria Dock, Dundee, DD1 3BP

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include North Carr Lightship and RRS Discovery.

Photo: Timwether, Public domain.
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 situated 660 feet southwest of HMS Unicorn.

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 . is situated 2,500 feet southwest of HMS Unicorn.

Museum
Photo: Andrew Abbott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
V&A Dundee is a design museum in , Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. is situated 2,300 feet southwest of HMS Unicorn.

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.

HMS Unicorn

Latitude
56.46159° or 56° 27′ 42″ north
Longitude
-2.95854° or 2° 57′ 31″ west
Inception
1824
Operator
Unicorn Preservation Society
Open location code
9C8VF26R+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 43210548
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ship
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q489413
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“HMS Unicorn” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “獨角獸號巡防艦”
  • Dutch: “HMS Unicorn”
  • Finnish: “HMS Unicorn”
  • French: “HMS Unicorn”
  • German: “HMS Unicorn”
  • German: “Unicorn”
  • Irish: “HMS Unicorn”
  • Japanese: “HMS ユニコーン”
  • Persian: “اچ‌ام‌اس یونیکورن (۱۸۲۴)”
  • Persian: “اچ‌ام‌اس یونیکورن”
  • Polish: “HMS Unicorn”
  • Russian: “HMS Unicorn (1824)”
  • Russian: “HMS Unicorn”
  • Spanish: “HMS Unicorn”
  • “HMS Unicorn”

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