River Clyde Photography: Tug

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Friday, 22 July 2022

Boss Tug

Boss Tug and barge passing Greenock on their way to Yorkhill Quay Glasgow.

Friday, 25 March 2022

Saturday, 12 February 2022

Afon Lligwy

Tug arriving on the Clyde from Glenarm County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Sunday, 16 January 2022

Sunday, 9 January 2022

CMS Warrior

CMS Warrior heading up the Clyde to Victoria Harbour Greenock.

Friday, 15 October 2021

Seal Carr and Dinopotes

Seal Carr and Dinopotes dredging at BAE Scotstoun.

Sunday, 10 October 2021

Barge on River Cart

A barge being brought up the River Cart by the tugs Bruiser and Michael Frances,they were heading for Westway Dock to collect an offshore structure for Hinkley Point C power station.

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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