River Clyde Photography: July 2022

Saturday 30 July 2022

Moon Shadow

Moon shadow is a motor yacht with a length of 42.6m. The yacht's builder is Feadship from Netherlands who delivered superyacht Moonshadow in 2003. The superyacht has a beam of 8.9m, a draft of 2.7m and a volume of 443 GT.

Seen here at Jamew Watt Dock Greenock

Friday 29 July 2022

EMERALD PRINCESS

Emerald Princess departing from Greenock Ocean Terminal.

Monday 25 July 2022

Liva Greta

Berthed at James Watt Dock

Sunday 24 July 2022

Waverley

Waverley arriving/departing Greenock

Friday 22 July 2022

Boss Tug

Boss Tug and barge passing Greenock on their way to Yorkhill Quay Glasgow.

Wednesday 20 July 2022

MV Isle of Mull

Built at Fergusons at Port Glasgow in 1988,In late autumn 1988 she was taken out of service for two weeks and sent to Tees Dockyard Ltd in Middlesbrough to be lengthened by 5.4 m (17 ft 9 in).

She is seen here leaving Oban Bay for the Isle of Mull.

Monday 18 July 2022

Lord of the Highlands

Cruise shup LORD OF THE HIGHLANDS at James Watt Dock

Saturday 16 July 2022

Celebrity Silhouette

Celebrity Silhouette is a Solstice-class cruise ship operated by Celebrity Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Group. She was ordered for the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft in May 2007 and was delivered in July 2011 as the fourth Solstice-class ship in the fleet.

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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