River Clyde Photography: Ocean Majesty

Friday 8 August 2008

Ocean Majesty

The Ocean Majesty was built in 1966 in Spain as a Ro-Ro ferry and was converted to a cruise ship in 1994. She is 135.3 metres in length, and is 10,417 gross tons. She carries a maximum of 621 passengers.

The ship was involved in a collision in August 2007,when the ship slipped her anchor and collided with the cruise liner Thomson Spirit,the Thomson spirit was undamaged and was able to continue but the passengers on-board Ocean Majesty had to be evacuated.

1 comment:

Jane said...: Some spectacular photos of this grand ship and the lovely scenery behind. I like reading the interesting information underneath too.; 9 August 2008 at 15:46

River Clyde Photography

Over half of Scotland’s population lives within a short distance of the River Clyde, from its humble beginnings in South Lanarkshire where it is created by two streams the Patrail Water and the Daer Water, the two streams meet at Watermeetings where the River Clyde starts.

It’s not long before it reaches picturesque Lanark and its famous waterfalls. It eventually finds its way to Glasgow who’s citizens in the 18^th century narrowed and deepened and ultimately industrialised the river making it one of the most famous shipbuilding rivers in the world, Glasgow did indeed make the Clyde and of course the Clyde made Glasgow, at its peak the Clyde shipyards built a fifth of the worlds ships.

During the 2^nd world war Winston Churchill said that “Liverpool and Glasgow were the lungs in which the country breathed through”. Ship building along with heavy industry is all but dead on the Clyde, the majority of our industrial heritage was swept away in the 70s and 80s leaving few traces of the rivers famous past.

Leaving Glasgow, the Clyde broadens as you pass the towns of Dumbarton, Port Glasgow and Greenock, who all played a part in making the Clyde famous through shipbuilding.

At the Tail of the Bank the river broadens once more and becomes the firth with its many sea lochs coastal towns and villages.

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