River Clyde Photography: Miscellaneous

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Monday 27 February 2017

MRV Scotia

Scottish government fisheries research vessel seen at Greenock Ocean Terminal.

Sunday 13 November 2016

Sea Trek

Sea Trek a training vessel based at the Great Harbour Greenock.

Saturday 22 October 2016

CEONA AMAZON is a pipe layer built in 2014 and currently sailing under the flag of Gibraltar. CEONA AMAZON has 199m length overall and beam of 32m. Her gross tonnage is 31240 tons.

Seen here at the Great Harbour Greenock.

Friday 21 October 2016

Giulio Verne

Giulio Verne a cable layer seen working close to Ailsa Craig, were she was laying electricity cables from Scotland to England.

Saturday 5 March 2016

Minna

Minna fishery patrol vessel at anchor off the coast of Ardrossan.

Forth Explorer

Forth Explorer survey boat on the Clyde.

Saturday 12 September 2015

Rockpiper

Fallpipe vessels are able to deposit stone accurately at great depths. The crew use a remote-controlled system to position the end of the fallpipe just a few metres over the placement level. Then the stone is fed through the fallpipe while the vessel moves over the destination area.

This method is frequently used in the oil and gas industry for levelling the seabed for pipelines or to provide pipelines with a protective layer of stone.

She is seen here at Ardneil Bay were cables had recently been laid.

Nexas Skagerrak

Nexans Skagerrak a cable-laying vessel seen entering the Great harbour at Greenock she was helping to lay cables at Ardneil Bay .
Click HERE to see pictures of the barge LM constructor which was also helping with the cable laying process.

Sunday 2 August 2015

Sordyroy

Live fish carrier on her way to Glasgow.

Friday 10 April 2015

Jura

Police launch Jura.

Wednesday 31 December 2014

Ronja Commander

Ronja Commander live fish carrier at Garvel dry dock for her annual overhaul.

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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