River Clyde Photography: cargo

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Friday 15 September 2023

NOORDDIJK

Noorddijk heading for KGV dock with wind turbine parts.

Sunday 10 September 2023

SNOKGRACHT

Snokgracht departing Greenock with her usual cargo of expensive boats.

Friday 4 August 2023

Vectis Pride

Vectis Pride is a General Cargo Ship built in 2012 and currently sailing under the flag of United Kingdom (UK).

Friday 16 June 2023

Wilma

WILMA (IMO: 9462744, MMSI 209917000) is a General Cargo Ship built in 2009 (14 years old) and currently sailing under the flag of Cyprus.

Seen here at KGV Dock Glasgow.

Friday 9 June 2023

Wednesday 31 May 2023

Arklow valley

Cargo ship collecting scrap at Sheildhall Glasgow.

Merel V

Merel V discharging her cargo at Sheildhall Glasgow.

Tuesday 14 March 2023

Wednesday 1 March 2023

Arklow Willow

Arklow Willow berthed at Sheildhall and passing Erskine.

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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