River Clyde Photography: James Watt Dock

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Monday 29 September 2014

Battler

Battler burning some oil while working at James Watt Dock.

Wednesday 24 September 2014

Tuesday 12 August 2014

Alba Endeavour

Alba Endeavour belonging to the Ocean Youth Trust about to leave James Watt Dock.

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Hebridean Princess

Hebridean Princess laid up for the winter in James Watt Dock.

Friday 24 January 2014

MV Caledonian Isles

Caledonian Isles in James Watt Dock after her winter check up at Garvel dry dock.

Saturday 23 November 2013

Ayton Cross

The tug Ayton Cross leaving James Watt Dock.

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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