River Clyde Photography: March 2015

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Ben Lomond

Ben Lomond and the surrounding hills as seen from Langbank.

Sunday, 29 March 2015

Air Sea Rescue

Royal Navy Air Sea Rescue helicopter flying over the Isle of Arran.

Friday, 27 March 2015

Train to Helensburgh

The Train to Helensburgh passing he old whisky bond sheds at Dumbarton.

Thursday, 26 March 2015

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Jevenau

Jevenau,a small coaster passes the cruise ship Aida Cara.

Sunday, 22 March 2015

Rachel Star

Small fishing boat with Ailsa Craig in the background, also seen passing Lady Isle (bottom)

Friday, 20 March 2015

Mississippi Star

The tanker Mississippi Star being manoeuvred into Rothesay Dock Clydebank.

Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Royal Marines Faslane

Royal Marines at Faslane submarine base,seen here guarding a Trident nuclear submarine which had been at Coulport presumably to have the nuclear missiles removed .

Sunday, 15 March 2015

Alba Na Mara

Scientific research ship based at Millport,seen here in James Watt Dock.

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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