River Clyde Photography: Cruise Ships

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Monday, 10 August 2020

Splendour

Splendour is a small cruise boat that operates from the Holy Loch .

Saturday, 20 June 2020

Azamara Quest

Azamara Quest heading for KGV Dock Glasgow, a rare sight to see a cruise ship making her way up to Glasgow.

The global pandemic has meant the cruise season was cancelled, the ships being mothballed for the foreseeable future.

Greenock refused peel ports request to anchor twelve ships on the Clyde because of the pandemic, it has to be said that the ships would only have had crewe aboard .

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Aida Vita

Aida Vita at the tail of the bank .

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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