River Clyde Photography: LM Constructor

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.

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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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