River Clyde Photography: April 2012

Monday 30 April 2012

Finlaggan

Finlaggan,just out of dry dock with a fresh coat of paint.

Friday 27 April 2012

Cameron

Briggs Cameron arriving in the Great Harbour,she often does work for the Royal Navy,servicing buoys and navigation aids.

Wednesday 25 April 2012

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Monday 23 April 2012

MV Balmoral

Balmoral and Waverley in dry dock for their annual overhaul.

Sunday 22 April 2012

SD Dependable

Sd Dependable departing the Great Harbour at Greenock.

Saturday 21 April 2012

Friday 20 April 2012

Hms Atherstone M38

Hms Atherstone mine hunter,hunt class from 1987.

Thursday 19 April 2012

Yacht

Seen off the coast at Ardrossan.

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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