River Clyde Photography: Small Boats

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Saturday 8 September 2012

Sponeil

Sponeil,seen passing Greenock esplanade.

Sunday 2 September 2012

On the 31 August 2012 at 20.00 hours ,a small flotilla of boats assembled outside the Clyde coastguard building to protest at its closure due to government cutbacks.

Calls regarding incidents on the Clyde will be dealt in Belfast Northern Ireland.

Tuesday 27 March 2012

St Mungo 2

St Mungo 2,Strathclyde fire brigade rescue boat,the first two pictures show her at her home berth at the Glasgow Nautical College.

Friday 23 March 2012

Auora

Tied up at James Watt Dock

Saturday 17 December 2011

Jacana

Pleasure craft passing Bowling.

Saturday 3 December 2011

Kingfisher

Moored in Rothesay Bay.

Friday 2 December 2011

May

May entering James Watt Dock.

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Aurora

Wednesday 23 November 2011

Dunkirk

Making her way past Bowling and on toward the Erskine bridge.

Thursday 13 October 2011

Mizpah

Wednesday 14 September 2011

St Kilda

Built in 1993 clinker built made of larch and oak.

Tuesday 9 August 2011

Cloch

Cloch pilot boat .

Wednesday 3 August 2011

St Just

St Just making her way down the Firth on a summers evening.

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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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