River Clyde Photography: September 2015

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Ardrossan

Sunset from Ardrossan looking out towards Horse Island.

Monday, 28 September 2015

Kingdom of Fife

Kingdom of Fife working at Ardneil Bay as the sun sets.

Saturday, 26 September 2015

MV Caledonian Isles

MV Caledonian Isles heads into a storm on her way back from Arran,the clouds are called mammatocumulus.

Thursday, 24 September 2015

Arklow Bay

Arklow Bay passing under the Erskine bridge on her way to Glasgow.

Monday, 21 September 2015

North West Marine

North West Marine,a multicat which is based at Largs Marina,seen here working at Brodick Bay Isle of Arran.

Saturday, 19 September 2015

MV Isle of Arran

Departing Ardrossan for Campbeltown,summer only.

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Saturday, 12 September 2015

Lehmann Runner

Cargo ship Lehmann Runner heading down the Clyde,She is currently sailing under the flag of Curacao. She was built in 1994.

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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