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Wednesday 12 November 2008
Monday 10 November 2008
Largs Queen Mary 11
Queen Marry 11 at Largs ,the smaller ferry is Courisk,post card is from the 1970s
Sunday 9 November 2008
HMS Dragon
On the slipway Sunday 9th November,HMS Dragon,due to be launched Monday the 17 th November.
She will be fourth type 45 to be launched,and the third from the Govan yard.
Click HERE for photographs of her being built.
Friday 7 November 2008
Type 45 destroyers,
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Dumbarton Rock
Monday 3 November 2008
Sunday 2 November 2008
Dolores Ibarruri ."The Passion Flower"
On the Banks of the Clyde at Custom House Quay, a short walk from the suspension bridge in the heart of Glasgow lies this superb statue of Dolores Ibarruri ."The Passion Flower".
The International Brigade's monument to the British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9. Their fight against fascism is embodied in the statue of Dolores Ibarruri (1895-1989)
Looking a bit worse for ware these days ,but still a striking sculpture.
More information on her life is HERE
Saturday 1 November 2008
FESCO ANGARA
Friday 31 October 2008
Thursday 30 October 2008
Fife Regatta
The third Fife Regatta took place on the Clyde in June and photographer Marc Turner was there.
The event was a celebration of the designs of WM. Fife and Sons who designed and built classic sailing yachts at their yard in Fairlie around the turn of the century .
Marc has produced a calendar of some of the best shots he took that week. It has been designed in a simple and elegant manner ,sympathetic to the timelessly elegant lines of these classic yachts .
More information is available Here
Wednesday 29 October 2008
Clydebank
Monday 27 October 2008
RMS Viper
The Viper was built at the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co's yard in Govan in 1906 and was 315 feet in length. She had three steam turbines powering the triple screws, making her one of the company's fastest ships with a top speed of 22 knots. The steamer worked the Ardrossan-Belfast route from 1906 to 1914.
The ship served as a troop carrier in the English Channel during the First World War but returned to operation on her pre-war route in 1919. However the unrest in Ireland resulted in the decline in passenger traffic with Scotland and Viper was sold to the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co in 1920 and renamed Snaefell.
Sunday 26 October 2008
Ali Cat
Saturday 25 October 2008
Friday 24 October 2008
Flying Elf at Greenock
Thursday 23 October 2008
SFPA NORNA
Norna passing the Gantocks.
The Gantocks is a small cluster of rocks which lies at the mouth of West Bay, south of Dunoon in the Firth of Clyde, and is marked by an illuminated beacon which was built c. 1886. The beacon is partnered by the Cloch Lighthouse located on Cloch Point to the east, and the two were deliberately designed to have significantly different characters to avoid confusion. The character of a lighthouse or beacon describes the colour of the light, and the timing of its light and dark periods.
The Gantocks beacon tower has a height of 44 feet, with the focal plane of the light at 39 feet. The light is red, and flashes once every 6 seconds, with a range 6 nautical miles.
Courtesey of secretscotland.org.uk
Wednesday 22 October 2008
Rothesay Dock,John Browns,Loninitz.
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