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The '''Royal Scots Navy''' (or '''Old Scots Navy''') was the [[navy]] of the [[Kingdom of Scotland]] from its origins in the Middle Ages until its merger with the [[Kingdom of England]]'s [[Royal Navy]] per the [[Acts of Union 1707]]. There are mentions in Medieval records of fleets commanded by Scottish kings in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. King [[Robert I of Scotland|Robert I]] (1274–1329, reigned 1306–1329) developed naval power to counter the English in the [[Scottish Wars of Independence|Wars of Independence]] (1296–1328). The build
King [[James IV of Scotland|James IV]] (1473–1513, reigned 1488–1513) put the enterprise on a new footing, founding a harbour at [[Newhaven, Edinburgh|Newhaven]], near [[Edinburgh]], and a dockyard at the Pools of [[Airth]]. He acquired a total of 38 ships including ''[[Great Michael]]'', at that time, the largest ship in Europe. Scottish ships had some success against privateers, accompanied the king on his expeditions in the islands and intervened in conflicts in [[Scandinavia]] and the [[Baltic Sea]], but were sold after the [[Battle of Flodden|Flodden campaign]]. Thereafter Scottish naval efforts would rely on privateering captains and hired merchantmen. Despite truces between England and Scotland there were periodic outbreaks of a ''[[guerre de course]]''. [[James V of Scotland|James V]] built a new harbour at [[Burntisland]] in 1542. The chief use of naval power in his reign was a series of expeditions to the Isles and France.
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