River Clyde Photography

Sunday, 23 October 2016

Ferguson's Shipyard Isle of Arran Ferry

Construction of the Isle of Arran ferry being built at Ferguson's Port Glasgow.

BA790 Shearwater

BA790 Shearwater passing in front of Ailsa craig as night falls,the light of the lighthouse on Ailsa
Craig can be seen ,

Saturday, 22 October 2016

CEONA AMAZON is a pipe layer built in 2014 and currently sailing under the flag of Gibraltar. CEONA AMAZON has 199m length overall and beam of 32m. Her gross tonnage is 31240 tons.

Seen here at the Great Harbour Greenock.

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.

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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Sunday, 23 October 2016

Ferguson's Shipyard Isle of Arran Ferry

BA790 Shearwater

Saturday, 22 October 2016

Ceona Amazon

Freeway

Friday, 21 October 2016

Giulio Verne

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Dunoon

Jura

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