River Clyde Photography: February 2015

Saturday 28 February 2015

Green Chief

Green Chief at Ardneil Bay Ardrossan she was assisting LM Constructor.

LM Constuctor

LM Constructor at Ardneil Bay Ardrossan were she was helping to lay underwater pipes.

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Thursday 26 February 2015

Caribbean Princes

Caribbean Princes rounds the Tail of the Bank and passes the Cloch lighthouse on her way into the Firth .

Monday 23 February 2015

Arklow Raven

Arklow Raven passing Renfrew on her way to Shieldhall.

Thursday 19 February 2015

Tower Hill

Tower Hill Gourock,an excellent viewpoint for watching the ships go by.

Monday 16 February 2015

Friday 13 February 2015

Gourock

Looking across the bay as the sun sets behind the hills.

Wednesday 11 February 2015

MV Lord of the Isles

Caledonian Mac Braynes ferry Lord of the Isles being manoeuvred by Battler in James Watt Dock.

Saturday 7 February 2015

MS Hanseatic (previously Society Adventurer) is a five-star cruise ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd cruise line. According to the Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships, it is the only five-star expedition-cruise ship worldwide. Built in 1991, she specialises in trips to the Antarctic. She was built as Society Adventurer, but was renamed when she was purchased by Hanseatic Tours, as the fourth in a line of Hanseatics. In 1997, Hapag-Lloyd purchased Hanseatic Tours, and she passed into their ownership.

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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