River Clyde Photography: ST TRILLO

Wednesday 5 November 2014

ST TRILLO

MV ST SILIO
built by Fairfield Govan,
Yard No 657
Engines by Crossley Bros Ltd, Stockport
Last Name: THRILLO (1975)
Previous Names: ST TRILLO (1945)
Propulsion: Twin Diesel 2 xM6cy 2SA 600bhp 13kn
Launched: Tuesday, 24/03/1936
Built: 1936
Ship Type: Passenger Vessel
Tonnage: 314grt, 165nrt
Length: 149.3 feet (BP)
Breadth: 27.2 feet
Draught: 7 feet
Owner History:
Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1954 L & N W (Realisations) Ltd, Liverpool
1954 Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co Ltd, Liverpool
1963 Townsend Bros Ferries Ltd, Coventry (optd P & A Campbell)
1965 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd, Coventry
1972 Nigel A D Wait, Horley Surrey
Scrapped - 1975

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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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