River Clyde Photography: Police

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Saturday, 15 November 2025

Sky

MOD boat Sky passing the village of Kilmun.

Wednesday, 22 January 2025

Tuesday, 16 July 2024

Police

Police boats entering James Watt Dock Greenock.

Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Barra

MOD police boat Barry passing BAE shipyard at Scotstoun.

Sunday, 30 April 2023

Saturday, 5 November 2022

Clyde

Police Scotland boat name Clyde seen at James Watt Dock.

Sunday, 28 August 2022

Skye

Military police boat passing the village of Strone.

Thursday, 21 October 2021

Police Ribs

Police ribs at Greenock training for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow

Sunday, 19 September 2021

Thursday, 12 December 2019

Police

A police rib passing Port Glasgow on her way up river

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Saturday, 19 August 2017

Saturday, 21 January 2017

Monday, 12 December 2016

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Jura

Jura an MOD police boat passing Bowling.

Friday, 29 July 2016

Loch Long

MOD police boat seen in Loch Long,a police boat can usually be seen cruising the Loch due to military bases in the area.

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Police Scotland

Police launch.

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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