Nearly 200 years old, HMS Unicorn is one of the world’s most remarkable historic ships, preserved as a museum and visitor attraction in Dundee.

HMS Unicorn was built for the Royal Navy in the Royal Dockyard at Chatham and launched in 1824. She is a rare survivor from the days of sail, one of the six oldest ships in the world and Scotland’s only representative of the sailing navy.

Over the past 200 years, HMS Unicorn played a variety of roles in the Navy at Chatham, in Dundee, the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and in the community.

These roles both now and in the past mean she has a special place in many people’s hearts, however they have come to know her.