River Clyde Photography: May 2015

Saturday 30 May 2015

Thursday 28 May 2015

Monday 25 May 2015

Sunday 24 May 2015

Queen Mary 2

Waiting for Cunards Queen Mary to depart Greenock.

Click HERE for pictures of her arriving at Greenock.

Saturday 23 May 2015

Friday 22 May 2015

Deo Gloria

Deo Gloria,a Dutch hopper dredger arriving in Glasgow to dredge the Govan ship yard.

Thursday 21 May 2015

Tuesday 19 May 2015

Sunday 17 May 2015

Waverley departing Ardrossan Harbour

Waverley departing Ardrossan Harbour 8 August 2014

Saturday 16 May 2015

Cameron

Cameron working on buoys for the Royal Navy at the entrance to the Gareloch.

Thursday 14 May 2015

Quadrant Tower, Dunure

Quadrant Tower, Dunure. A relic from word war 11,its exact purpose is open to some debate,perhaps used for planes returning to nearby Turnberry airfield.

Tuesday 12 May 2015

Eraclea

Eraclea powerful seagoing tug which was used to take parts of the aircraft carrier built at Govan to Rosyth on the east coast.

Click HERE for pictures and video of aircraft carrier move.

Saturday 9 May 2015

Alador

Alador passing Old Kilpatrick on her way to Glasgow as part of the Commonwealth Flotilla.

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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Saturday 30 May 2015

Arklow Resolve