River Clyde Photography

Monday, 11 January 2016

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218 arriving in Glasgow before she started war games off the West coat of Scotland.

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Eildh Anne

Eildh Anne departs Largs after landing her catch.

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Type 404 Elbe class replenishment ships of the German Navy were built to support its squadrons of Fast Attack Craft, submarines and minesweeper/hunters, as such they are usually referred to as tenders,.

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Lyle Hill

Lyle Hill summer time.

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Wes Gesa

Sunday, 27 December 2015

D.T.S.S. Oxton

Mersey ferry

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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Monday, 11 January 2016

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218

Saturday, 9 January 2016

Eildh Anne

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Aurora

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Donau A516

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Lyle Hill

Tuesday, 29 December 2015

Wes Gesa

Sunday, 27 December 2015

D.T.S.S. Oxton

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