River Clyde Photography: September 2019

Monday 30 September 2019

Friday 27 September 2019

Deo Gloria

Deo Gloria a suction dredger which was at James Watt dry dock for her annual maintenance.

Tuesday 24 September 2019

Clansman

Clansman heading upriver to Rothesay Dock Clydebank for some maintenance, flying the Union Jack for some reason!

Saturday 21 September 2019

Challenge Wales

Challenge Wales visiting Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games in 2014

Thursday 19 September 2019

Cemvale

Heading downriver after delivering cement at KGV dock Glasgow

Sunday 15 September 2019

Thursday 12 September 2019

Arklow Bay

Passing under the Erskine Bridge on her way to Glasgow.

Tuesday 10 September 2019

Aida Vita

Aida Vita,cruise ship passing Gourock from Lyle Hill Greenock.

Saturday 7 September 2019

HMC Active at 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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