River Clyde Photography

Saturday, 3 December 2022

Wednesday, 30 November 2022

Destiny TT279

Built in 1974 at Gerrard Brothers Arbroath

Twin-rig prawn trawler.

HMS Glasgow

HMS Glasgow heading down the Clyde for Glen Mallan in Loch Long where she will be floated off the barge and be towed back to BAE at Clydebank.

Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Sunday, 27 November 2022

Thursday, 24 November 2022

Kyrene UL 144

Ullapool registered boat arriving in Oban.

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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Destiny TT279

HMS Glasgow

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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

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Thursday, 24 November 2022

Kyrene UL 144

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