River Clyde Photography: September 2022

Friday, 30 September 2022

PETROJARI FOINAVEN

Petrojari Foinaven at Hunterson for removal of equipment and BP signage she will then sail to Denmark to be scrapped.

The vessel was operated by BP for twenty five years off the coast of Shetland.

Thursday, 29 September 2022

French cruise ship Le Dumont-d'Urville is the fourth ship of the Ponant Explorers class of cruise ships operated by Ponant. Each member of the class has been allocated the name of a famous French explorer.

Wednesday, 28 September 2022

Challlenger SY46

Stornoway registered boat at Irvine

Monday, 26 September 2022

Queen Mary

The Queen Mary departing the Clyde,she was launched from John Browns at Clydebank on the 26 September 1934.

Thursday, 22 September 2022

SD Impulse

SD Impuse,tug used for submarines seen here at the entrance to Loch Long.

SD Oronsay

SD Oronsay [Naval Auxiliary] at Ardrossan Harbour.

Monday, 19 September 2022

SD KYLE OF LOCHALSH

SD Kyle of Lochalsh in James Watt dock Greenock.

Clydeside Distillery

The Pumphouse was built in 1877 to provide hydraulic power for Queen's Dock, the building is now used as a whisky distillery.

MV Loch Nevis

CalMacs MV Loch Nevis in dry dock at Greenock.

Saturday, 17 September 2022

Sky Princess

Departing Greenock Ocean Terminal.

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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