Tuesday, 17 April 2012

MV Balmoral

Balmoral in James Watt Dock awaiting to enter dry dock ,Balmoral is the paddle steamers Waverley sister ship normally found cruising the Bristol Channel.

Monday, 16 April 2012

HNLMS De Ruyter (F804) a Dutch frigate seen on the river heading for Glasgow and at the Tail of the Bank as she left firth.

Sunday, 15 April 2012

Frankfurt am Main A1412

Frankfurt am Main German combat support ship.

HNOMS Hinnoey

HNOMS Hinnoey departing the Clyde October 2010.

Saturday, 14 April 2012

Finlaggan

Caledonian MacBraynes Finlaggan shares a dry dock with fishing boat Ocean Star.

Friday, 13 April 2012

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Ocean Star

Fishing Boat in Garvel dry dock.

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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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

MV Balmoral

Monday, 16 April 2012