Motto
"Dei Flumen Nobis Lumen"
"The river of God is a light to us"
Newport on Tay, which owes its existence to the ancient ferries,
which plied from there to Dundee, became a Police Burgh in 1887.
The arms resemble the device on the 1892 Burgh seal but most of
the detail has been altered.
The ship and the sea recall that Newport was at the southern end
of the ferry of Seamylnes, a ferry that ran for centuries until the
opening of the Tay Road Bridge in 1966.
The ship bears on its sail the arms of Nairne of Sandford (now St
Fort) while the lion with the cross in the stern comes from the arms
of Berry of Tayfield; these two families have very close associations
with the town.
