We have an interesting history.

We at The Shipping Warrior are descended from the Pagans of Scoughall, and in 1919, John Robert Dale bought the estate of Seacliff, Scoughall and Auldhame after being tenant farmer of Scoughall since 1848, and Auldhame since 1834. The three estates remain to this day in the ownership of the Dale family. The novelist Robert Louis Stevenson was related to John Robert Dale and spent several boyhood holidays at Scoughall. It was here in front of the farmhouse fire that the young Stevenson first heard the story of how folks in these parts on dark stormy nights, when winds used to lash the coast, lured sailing ships onto the rocks by displaying misleading lantern lights.

The 'Pagans of Scoughall' had the worst of reputations. They were said to tie a horse's neck to its knee and attach a lantern to the rope, then drive the horse slowly along the cliffs, so that a vessel out at sea would think it a ship riding at anchor, and come in, only to be wrecked on the rocky reef known as the Great Car and be plundered. These tales gave Stevenson the idea for his story "The Wreckers". Robert Louis Stevenson also wrote in his novel Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped) of the 'lights of Scoughall' and purposely put 'Tam Dale' in charge of the prisoners on the Bass Rock.

It is no surprise then that some of our ancestors got sent to Australia, and the remaining ones became Sailors and Naval Men.

Today, we do not pillage and destroy, and neither do we take to the seas, but we are still drawn to the Shipping Industry.

We have been in the transportation business since 2011. We first started out with a small car offering Fast Food deliveries and then progressed to Private Hire Vehicles. By 2015 we moved on to the Shipping Industry by moving on to vans offering a Courier Service, and our next stage is to hopefully soon move on to Lorries transporting Haulage, as well as continuing with the Courier Services we currently offer. With your help we may make it to the next level.