River Clyde Photography: James Watt Dock

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Saturday 16 November 2013

R.V. Aora

R.V. Aora is a 22 m survey & research vessel based at the University Marine Biological Station on the isle of Millport

Friday 27 September 2013

MV Bute leaving Garvel dry dock

Thursday 30 May 2013

Monday 13 May 2013

On the 9 May 2013 UFA crashed into the West Pier at Ayr harbour,she was holed above the waterline.
She subsequently made her way to James Watt Dock in Greenock to be inspected by the appropriate authorities.

Saturday 11 May 2013

Lewis

Police launch Lewis inspecting James Watt Dock.

Monday 8 April 2013

MV Finlaggan

MV Finlaggan maneuvers her way into Garvel dry dock for her annual maintenance check up.

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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