River Clyde Photography: 2014

Wednesday 31 December 2014

Ronja Commander

Ronja Commander live fish carrier at Garvel dry dock for her annual overhaul.

Monday 29 December 2014

Thursday 25 December 2014

25th of December and the sun has now moved as far south as she can and now starts to move back north,on this morning the sun will rise in the constellation of Crux,the days will now get longer.
The photographs were taken from Portencross looking across the water to The Isle of Arran.

Monday 22 December 2014

Bruiser

Bruiser heading for Victoria Harbour.

Saturday 20 December 2014

Victoria Harbour Greenock

Thursday 18 December 2014

Pole Star

NLV Pole Star is a lighthouse tender operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB), the body responsible for the operation of lighthouses and marine navigation aids around the coasts of Scotland and the Isle of Man.

Pole Star was completed in 2000 by Ferguson Shipbuilders on the River Clyde. She is the fourth NLB vessel to carry the name and replaced the 37 year old NLV Fingal. In memory of this vessel,

Tuesday 16 December 2014

HMS Duncan

HMS Duncan at a military pier on Loch Long.

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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