River Clyde Photography: March 2012

Tuesday, 27 March 2012

St Mungo 2

St Mungo 2,Strathclyde fire brigade rescue boat,the first two pictures show her at her home berth at the Glasgow Nautical College.

Friday, 23 March 2012

Thursday, 22 March 2012

Clyde Marines MV Rover seen arriving at Largs,she was transporting workers from Solitaire the worlds largest pipe laying ship which was at an anchorage point close to the town.

Click HERE for pictures of Solitaire.

Monday, 19 March 2012

Solitaire

The largest pipe laying vessel in the world arrived on the Clyde for the second time.
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

HMS Duncan D37

HMS Duncan in dry dock she is the last of the type 45s to be built.

Monday, 12 March 2012

Firth of Clyde 2011

Thursday, 8 March 2012

MV Caledonian Isles

MV Caledonian Isles at Brodick Bay Arran.

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

HMS Example P165

Coastal training craft,seen here leaving James Watt Dock.

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

MV Lord of the Isles

Lord the Isles seen at Ardrossan on a rather windy January day,she was standing in for the Caledonian Isles .

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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