River Clyde Photography

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Freeway

The dredger Freeway making her way past Port Glasgow.

Friday, 21 October 2016

Giulio Verne

Giulio Verne a cable layer seen working close to Ailsa Craig, were she was laying electricity cables from Scotland to England.

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Dunoon

Old post card showing Dunoon from the Gantocks.

Jura

Jura an MOD police boat passing Bowling.

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

TS Queen Mary in James Watt Dock after receiving a fresh coat of paint and hull inspection in dry dock.
She will be taken to Glasgow to berthed until more funds can be raised to help with her restoration.

Click HERE for pictures of her arriving in Greenock

Click HERE for a video.

MV Balmoral

USS Porter (DDG-78)

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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Saturday, 22 October 2016

Freeway

Friday, 21 October 2016

Giulio Verne

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Dunoon

Jura

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

TS Queen Mary

MV Balmoral

USS Porter (DDG-78)

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