River Clyde Photography: April 2013

Saturday 27 April 2013

FGS Frankfurt am main (A1412)

FGS Frankfurt am main (A1412) German navy auxiliary berthed at Loch Long.
Click HERE for a video and for more pictures of her arrival in Glasgow click HERE

Wednesday 24 April 2013

FGS Rhon A1443

The Type 704A Rhön class tankers are replenishment oilers used by the German Navy to provide under-way replenishment for its ships at sea.

Monday 22 April 2013

Trans Dania

Trans Dania at Greenock,her cargo was reels of paper for the newspaper industry.

Sunday 21 April 2013

Torch

Clydeports work-boat Torch passing Greenock.

Saturday 20 April 2013

M1059 Weilheim

M1059 Weilheim German navy type 332 Frankenthal class mine hunter.

Thursday 18 April 2013

Encounter

Encounter heading for Greenock container terminal.

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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