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Saturday, 25 October 2025
CMOS Installer
The CMOS Installer, which is managed and operated jointly by Enshore Subsea and Herbosch-Kiere, is a shallow draft, highly manoeuvrable cable laying vessel,seen here working in the Firth of Forth.
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Fingal
Fingal was commissioned by the Northern Lighthouse Board (NLB) in 1963 and was the last ship to be built by the Blythswood Shipbuilding Company in Glasgow. Registered in Leith, she was stationed for 30 years in Oban and then for 6 years in Stromness, ferrying lighthouse keepers, essential supplies and maintenance staff to lighthouses, as well as undertaking repairs to navigational aids throughout the West Coast and the North of Scotland. Fingal retired from NLB service in 2000.
Wednesday, 25 September 2024
SD Menai
SD MENAI is a Offshore supply vessel built in 1981 by DUNSTON RICHARD THORNE - THORNE, U.K.. Currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom (UK).
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Cardigan Bay Launch
Shipyard worker at the BAE Govan yard on the day of launch of RFA Cardigan Bay on the 9th of April 2005.
Tuesday, 30 April 2024
Thursday, 28 March 2024
MPV Hirta
MPV Hirta is a marine protection vessel operated by the Scottish Government
She is seen here passing Erskine and New Shot Island.
Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Thursday, 29 February 2024
MRV SCOTIA
MRV Scotia was built by Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd at Port Glasgow for the then Scottish Office and completed early in 1998. Operating from her home port in Aberdeen, Scotia is used for fish stock assessment and environmental monitoring in the North Sea and north Atlantic waters. She carries a crew of 18 and can accommodate up to 12 scientists.
Photographed here passing Erskine on her way down the Clyde.
Thursday, 1 February 2024
Thursday, 9 November 2023
HMY Britannia
HMY Britannia was built at the shipyard of John Brown & Co. Ltd in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire.
She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 16 April 1953, and commissioned on 11 January 1954. The ship was designed with three masts: a 133-foot (41 m) foremast, a 139-foot (42 m) mainmast, and a 118-foot (36 m) mizzenmast. The top aerial on the foremast and the top 20 feet (6.1 m) of the mainmast were hinged to allow the ship to pass under bridges.
She was decommissioned in 1997 and is now a tourist attraction at Ocean Terminal Leith.
Friday, 21 July 2023
AQUA GRIPFISK
AQUA GRIPFISK (IMO: 9158642) is a Fish Carrier that was built in 1997 (26 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Norway.










