River Clyde Photography: October 2014

Friday, 31 October 2014

SD Dependable

SD Dependable making her way across the Firth to Faslane naval base.

Wednesday, 29 October 2014

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Aldor

Seen heading for Glasgow as part of the Commonwealth flotilla.

Sunday, 26 October 2014

Built by William Denny & Brothers Dumbarton,
Yard No 1455
Engines by shipbuilder
Last Name: AL ZAHER (1979)

Propulsion: 2 dr geared 8000shp 19.5 knots Steam turbine
Launched: Friday, 14/12/1951
Built: 1952
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Ship's Role: Car Ferry
Tonnage: 3333 grt
Length: 362 feet 1
Breadth: 60 feet 8
Draught: 12 feet 11
Owner History:
British Transport Commission, Southern Region
1963 British Railways Board, Southern Region
1979 Sealink UK Ltd, London
1979 Baaboud Trading & Shipping Agencies (Ahmed M Baaboud), Jeddah
Status: Arrived for Scrapping - 25/04/1981

First stern loading car ferry for Dover/Calais crossing 700 passengers and 120 cars
Entered service Dover/Boulogne 17/06/1952

Sold in 1979 to Ahmed Mohamed Baaboud Saudi Arabia. Stern ramp fitted by Vosper Shiprepair
Left Southampton 02/01/1980 and operated Port Sudan~Jeddah
Scrapped at Gadani Beach by Karim Shipbreaking Industries, commenced 6/5/1981.

Thursday, 23 October 2014

Loch Rannoch

Loch Rannoch,at anchor in Irvine Bay.

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

LM Constructor

The flat-top barge LM Constructor is a general purpose vessel suitable for a wide range of inshore projects. At 60m x 19m it is equipped with modern accommodation for up to 40 people.
With three successive seasons operating off the coast of Dounreay in Northern Scotland to carry out the clean up of an area of the seabed by recovering nuclear particles, the purpose designed tracked ROV complete with launch and recovery system capable of deploying the equipment in sea-states with significant wave height up to 2m

She is seen here at Troon ,she was helping other vessels in the laying of pipes at Ardneil Bay Ardrossan.

Friday, 17 October 2014

FILIA NETTIE

FILIA NETTIE heading round the Tail of the Bank on her way to Glasgow passing Ruby Princess which was departing the Ocean Terminal at Greenock.

Wednesday, 15 October 2014

HMS Brocklesby M33

Minehunter HMS Brocklesby M33

Monday, 13 October 2014

Kite surfing

Kite surfing at Brassie beach Troon.

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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