River Clyde Photography: Cruise Ships

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Saturday 30 June 2018

MS Royal Princess

MS Royal Princess is a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, and the third ship to sail for the cruise line under that name. The ship was built by Fincantieri at their shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy.

Friday 1 June 2018

MS Vision of the Seas

MS Vision of the Seas is a Vision-class cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International, the last of her class. Her maiden voyage was on May 2, 1998, following which she sailed for a year in Europe before being moved to other routes.

Construction started: 29 October 1996
Launched: 1 September 1997
Capacity: 2,435 passengers
Yard number: F31
Tonnage: 78,340 GT
Speed: 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Crew: 765

Sunday 27 May 2018

MS Marina

MS Marina is an Oceania-class cruise ship, which was constructed at Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente yards in Italy for Oceania Cruises.

Thursday 24 May 2018

MV Splendour

MV Splendour passing the Gantocks,small cruise boat that operates from the Holy Loch.

Tuesday 22 May 2018

Norwegian Star.

Wednesday 16 May 2018

Clyde Clipper

Clyde Clipper passing Clydebank on one of her summer cruises down river.

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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