River Clyde Photography: April 2015

Wednesday 29 April 2015

Tuesday 28 April 2015

MV Saturn

MV Saturn the retired CalMac ferry being repainted in her new colours of Pentland ferries.

Sunday 26 April 2015

Bit Oktania

Bit Oktania passing Dumbarton rock on her way to Rothesay Dock Clydebank.

Thursday 23 April 2015

SD Warden

SD Warden at Garvel dry dock for her winter refit.

Tuesday 21 April 2015

St Mungo 2

St Mungo 2, Fire service boat checking on a barge at work close to the Kingston bridge.

Monday 20 April 2015

Abis Duisburg

Abis Duisburg making her way up to KGV dock in Glasgow with a cargo of wind turbine parts.

Sunday 19 April 2015

Lysblink Seaways, a side door paper cargo vessel ran around near Ardnamurchan Point in the West Highlands. The 120m ship was towed to Inchgreen dry dock on the Clyde for inspection ,it was decided that the damage was too severe to be repaired and she was subsequently moved to Rosneath Jetty to be scrapped.

A few pictures of her on the Clyde can be viewed HERE

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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