River Clyde Photography: November 2008

Sunday 30 November 2008

Duncan Bow

ORMESBY CROSS and barge

The bow section of Duncan being towed to the Govan shipyard in Glasgow. Its the 5th type 45 destroyer.

Saturday 29 November 2008

Cimbris

Cimbris with a cargo of wind turbine blades.

Isle of Arran

The Isle of Arran seen from the small village of West Kilbride.

Friday 28 November 2008

Aklow Rogue

Seen passing Clydebank on the 28 November 2008,she was on her way to collect scrap from Lobnitz.

HMS Dauntless

Workers on Dauntless at the Govan ship yard.

Thursday 27 November 2008

MV JUPITER

MV Jupiter on her way to Dunoon,the film was made in the same afternoon,were the weather went from torrential downpours to bright winter sunlight.

Wednesday 26 November 2008

LYS-SKOG

Lys Skog on a wet and windy day,having left Greenock Ocean terminal after offloading her cargo of paper.

The Tugs Ayton Cross and Svitzer Mallaig were heading back to James Watt Dock.

Tuesday 25 November 2008

Scott Venture

Scott Venture seen heading down the Clyde after a visit to Shieldhall,she is seen here passing the recently filled in Kingston Basin.

Sunday 23 November 2008

Mount Stuart

The Pilot boat Mount Stuart heads out down the Firth to meet another ship.

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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