River Clyde Photography: Tanker

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Sunday 7 May 2023

Hulin

Tanker passing Greenock having been at the fuel terminal at Rothesay Dock.

Tuesday 7 March 2023

Transmar

Transmar seen from Gourock as she makes her way down the Firth having visited Rothesay Dock Clydebank.

Sunday 15 January 2023

CUMBRIAN FISHER

CUMBRIAN FISHER at the NATO jetty on Loch Striven.

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Ramona

Tanker at anchor at the entrance to Loch Long.

Thursday 10 November 2022

Cumbrian Fisher

Tanker departing the Gare Loch accompanied by two SD tugs and the pilot boats SD Clyde Racer and Titan.

Friday 21 October 2022

Saturday 15 October 2022

Portola

Tanker on her way to Rothesay Dock Clydebank.

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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