River Clyde Photography: December 2020

Thursday, 31 December 2020

Valaris D5-4 and Ensco DS8

Valaris D5-4 and Ensco DS8 drill ships laid up at Hunterson.

Friday, 25 December 2020

Sten Bergen

Tanker being manoeuvred into Rothesay Dock by the tugs Ayton Cross and CMS Wrestler

Wednesday, 23 December 2020

Elektron

MV Elektron is a converted RoRo vessel which has been converted for export cable installation purposes.

Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Portosalvo

Offshore tug and supply ship at anchor off Gourock.

Sunday, 6 December 2020

Ayton Cross

The Svitzer tug Ayton Cross overtaking the Verity at the Titan Clydebank.

Wednesday, 2 December 2020

MV Asterix

MV Asterix is a Canadian commercial container ship. It was purchased by Federal Fleet Services as part of Project Resolve, and was later converted into a supply ship for the Royal Canadian Navy.

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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