River Clyde Photography: Trawler/Fishing Boats

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Thursday 21 April 2022

Britania V FH 121

Britania at Girvan,she was built by Nobles at Girvan.

Sunday 13 March 2022

Guide Them

Fishing boat based in Greenock,seen here returning to James Watt Dock.

Thursday 6 January 2022

Silvercrest II

Silvercrest II arriving at Troon harbour.

Monday 9 August 2021

Sunday 8 August 2021

Auriga Ar147

Auriga Ar147 at Whiting Bay Isle of Arran.

Monday 26 July 2021

Kayleigh M

Kayleigh M seen off the coast of Rothesay.

Monday 19 July 2021

Oceanc

Oceanc at work with the Isle of Bute in the background.

Monday 17 May 2021

Sunbeam

1975BUILT IN BANGOR NORTHERN IRELAND,currently in East India harbour.

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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