River Clyde Photography: March 2022

Tuesday 29 March 2022

World Pearl

World Pearl is a Offshore supply vessel built in 2013 by DAMEN SHIPYARD GORINCHEM - GORINCHEM, NETHERLANDS, Seen here at James Watt Dock.

Monday 28 March 2022

Eagle Blane

Eagle Blane departing Loch Long after a visit to Finnart oil terminal.

EAGLE BLANE (IMO: 9833101) is a Crude Oil Tanker that was built in 2020 (2 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Norway.

Friday 25 March 2022

Tuesday 22 March 2022

Ferro

The vessel FERRO is a General Cargo Ship built in 1991 and currently sailing under the flag of Barbados.

Sunday 13 March 2022

Guide Them

Fishing boat based in Greenock,seen here returning to James Watt Dock.

Wednesday 9 March 2022

Challenger of Leith

Coastworks Challenger of Leith on Nobles slip at Girvan.

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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