River Clyde Photography: Miscellaneous

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Tuesday 22 May 2018

Survival Craft Training

Stream Marine Training based in the Great Harbour at Greenock.

Friday 4 August 2017

Minna

Minna fishery protection vessel arriving in Glasgow.

Monday 22 May 2017

Murray McDavid

Murray McDavid is a 60 ft wooden boat belonging to a whisky bottling company,they have whisky tasting trips sailing down the Clyde from Glasgow.

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.

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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