The Scottish lochs and canals have been the placement for a two week train for 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines.
With temperatures plummeting under zero and the primary snows of winter falling, the lads of the Plymouth-based squadron have been working on the waterways that snake by the Nice Glen.
With the vacationer season over the monster-hunting hoardes on Loch Ness have been changed by the roar of hovercrafts and ORCs (Offshore Raiding Craft).
It is the primary time in round a decade 539 ASRM has exercised on this scale within the Scottish lochs and waterways.
Constructed by Thomas Telford and accomplished in 1822 the waterway permits vessels to chop throughout Scotland, avoiding the tough seas on the very high of the UK.
With the defeat of Napolean the necessity for the Royal Navy to often use it by no means materialised, though in the course of the First World Struggle it turned a significant route for the UK’s fishing fleet and the motion of sources, secure from the German Navy.
Patrol boats such because the P2000 HMS Exploit can nonetheless fortunately squeeze by together with Royal Marines’ LCU touchdown craft. One of the crucial dramatic options they’ve to barter is Neptune’s Staircase, a flight of eight locks at Fort Augustus which lifts, or drops, boats 20 metres over 90 minutes.
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