River Clyde Photography: Bulker

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Tuesday, 10 March 2026

PETREL S

PETREL S (IMO: 9363883) is a Bulk Carrier and is sailing under the flag of LIBERIA. Her length overall (LOA) is 120 meters and her width is 25 meters.

Seen departing from KGV Glasgow.

Thursday, 5 March 2026

CENTURY BEIJING (IMO 1015349) is a Dry bulk/Ultramax vessel built in 2024 and is sailing under the flag of Liberia. She has an overall length (LOA) of 199 meters and a width (beam) of 32 meters. Her summer deadweight capacity is 63,743 tonnes.

She is seen here at KGV Dock loading scrap metal.

Saturday, 21 February 2026

Petrels

Petrels bulker at KGV dock.

Thursday, 19 February 2026

MOTHER M

MOTHER M (IMO: 9626613) is a Bulk Carrier and is sailing under the flag of MARSHALL ISLANDS. Her length overall (LOA) is 180 meters and her width is 30 meters.

Seen here at KGV Glasgow.

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Louise

The bulker Louise passing Bowling on her way down the Clyde.

The vessel LOUISE (IMO 9470301, MMSI 538011679) is a General Cargo Ship built in 2012 (14 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands.

Saturday, 10 January 2026

Penelope L

Bulker passing Bowling on her way up the Clyde for KGV Dock in Glasgow.

She will be loaded with scrap metal.

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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