River Clyde Photography: Royal Navy Rescue Helicopter

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Monday 18 December 2017

HMS Tyne

HMS Tyne is the sixth Royal Navy ship to carry the name Tyne. She is a River-class offshore patrol vessel built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton to serve as a fishery protection unit within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships Mersey and Severn. All three were commissioned into service in 2003 to replace the five older Island-class patrol vessels.

Tyne was featured in the first episode of the BBC series Empire of the Seas, "How the Navy Forged the Modern World, Heart of Oak", presented by Dan Snow.

Thursday 3 September 2015

HMS Prince of Wales

The largest section of HMS Prince of Wales to be built at Govan in Glasgow being towed down the Clyde for her journey to Rosyth dry dock on the River Forth were the air craft carrier is being assembled.

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Sunday 29 March 2015

Air Sea Rescue

Royal Navy Air Sea Rescue helicopter flying over the Isle of Arran.

Friday 29 March 2013

HMS Liverpool

HMS Liverpool's last visit to the Clyde before being decommissioned,for more pictures click HERE

Friday 30 November 2012

Royal Navy Rescue

Navy rescue helicopter over Gourock.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Navy/Rescue 177 Helicopter

The navy rescue helicopter was called out at lunchtime on the 12th of April when a small pleasure craft was reported to be on fire in the Largs Channel.

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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