River Clyde Photography: SD TUGS

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Monday 6 January 2014

Pretty Ivy

Pretty Ivy passing Greenock during a torrential down pour, interesting to note that the usual Svitzer tugs being busy elsewhere on the Clyde that help was sought from SD Dependable,a military tug from nearby Faslane.

Tuesday 17 September 2013

SD Omagh

SD Omagh seen from Battery Park Gourock.

Friday 21 June 2013

SD MOORFOWL

SD MOORFOWL in James Watt Dock she is a diving support vessel for the Royal Navy.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

SD Moorhen

SD Moorhen a powered mooring lighter seen here in James Watt Dock ,all SD tugs and boats are in the process of receiving the companys new livery.

Saturday 6 April 2013

SD Eva

Sd Eva a personnel carrier making her way across the channel to the Great Harbour Greenock,she had been at the Faslane submarine base.

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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