River Clyde Photography: Cruise Ships

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Wednesday 19 December 2018

Saga Pearl II

The cruise ship Saga Pearl II has been operating for more than 28 years, making cruises worldwide. Saga Cruises acquired the ship, at auction, in August 2009. Saga Pearl II effectively replaced the MS Saga Rose which was decommissioned in 2009.

Monday 27 August 2018

MSC Meraviglia

MSC Meraviglia is a cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises, built at its Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in St. Nazaire, France, by STX France. Meraviglia is the lead ship of MSC's new "Vista Project" vessels, with the MSC Bellissima planned to follow in 2019, each of which will have a passenger capacity of 4,500. When it debuted in June 2017, it was the 4th largest cruise ship in the world,

Saturday 18 August 2018

Caribbean Princess

A regular on the Clyde,Caribbean princess was photographed from Gourock as she made her way into he Firth.

Friday 13 July 2018

Adonia

On September 26th 2017 P&O announced that Adonia would be retired in March 2018 with the last cruise leaving Barbados on February 23 and ending in Barbados on March 9, 2018. She arrived at the Grand Bahama Shipyard on March 13, 2018 and was officially handed over to Azamara the following day.She completed a short drydocking in Grand Bahama (which included hull inspections, along with changing her name and registry) before sailing for Belfast's Harland and Wolff shipyard.

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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