River Clyde Photography: May 2016

Monday 30 May 2016

MV Lochnivar

MV Lochnivar on the Largs to Isle of Cumbrae route.

Friday 27 May 2016

Finnart oil Terminal

Tankers at Finnart oil Terminal on Loch Long.

Tuesday 24 May 2016

Battler

The tug Battler helps to manoeuvre the ferry Argyle into James Watt Dock.

Saturday 21 May 2016

Thursday 19 May 2016

Monday 16 May 2016

Elens Isle

Elens Isle the Govan summer ferry,seen here at Renfrew.

TS Queen Mary returns to the Clyde after departing in 1981 to become a floating restaurant in London,in recent years she has been lying derelict at Tilbury docks.

In 2012 a charitable group, Friends of the TS Queen Mary, was formed with the goal of returning the ship to a permanent berth in Glasgow, Scotland.

Saturday 14 May 2016

MV Bute

MV Bute in Rothesay Bay

Thursday 12 May 2016

Clyde Sunset

Sunset as seen from Largs.

Monday 9 May 2016

King Explorer

King Explorer seen at Troon Harbour.

Friday 6 May 2016

Inverkip

The View from Inverkip marina.

Tuesday 3 May 2016

Discovery

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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