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Thursday, 21 September 2023

Isle of Cumbrae

 





Collecting haybales on the Isle of Cumbrae.

FRI KVAM







 FRI KVAM is a General cargo vessel built in 2000 by SCHEEPSWERF WATERHUIZEN J.PATTJE - WATERHUIZEN, NETHERLANDS. Currently sailing under the flag of Cyprus. 

Seen here at Ayr Harbour

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

MV Portree


 MV Portree was a ferry, built in 1965 for the Skye crossing. In 1970, she was re-built and moved to the Kyles of Bute where she served until 1986.


Tuesday, 19 September 2023

Mauldslie Bridge












 Mauldslie Bridge is a three-segmental-arch bridge in Dalserf, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It crosses the River Clyde between the A72 road and the former location of Mauldslie Castle. Built in 1861, and now a Category A listed structure, the bridge is believed to be the work of David Bryce. Mauldslie Castle West Lodge and archway stands at the western end of the bridge. 

The bridge was built for James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands, to serve the now demolished Mauldslie Castle.

Monday, 18 September 2023

Troon Town

Troon is a beach resort town in south Ayrshire, probably best known for its many golf courses, the most famous being Royal Troon.

Up until the 1980s Troon was a shipbuilding town with the famous Ailsa ship building company dating back to the 1880s

Troon has the main fish market in south west Scotland, the harbour theses days is mainly used for the transportation of timber around the Firth of Clyde
 

Sunday, 17 September 2023

Puffin Island










 Puffin Island tug and Abeko Server 1 a backhoe dredger at Keppel Pier, they are preparing to start work on Milports £27 million flood prevention scheme.


Saturday, 16 September 2023

Toward point Lighthouse






 Toward Point Lighthouse is on the southern extremity of the Cowal Peninsula, near the village of Toward, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. There has been a lighthouse here since 1812.


Toward Point Lighthouse was completed in 1812. It was built by Robert Stevenson (1772–1850) for the Cumbrae Lighthouse Trust. Two lighthouse keepers' houses were added in the later 1800s. A white building on the foreshore housed the foghorn mechanism, originally a steam engine and then diesel engines. The foghorn was taken out of operation in the 1990s.  The keeper's cottages were sold in 2012 and are now a private home.


Information from Wikipedia