SD Warden

Sd Warden at James Watt Dock click HERE for more SD Tugs.

Isle of Arran

The damaged visor of the Isle of Arran



The Isle of Arran operates between the West coast and the islands of the Inner Hebrides.

On the 6 February 2010 she crashed into the peer at Kennacraig causing damage to her visor.

Sunset Rainbow

Seen from Lyle Hill Greenock.

Wilson Heron

Lyle Hill

River Clyde Boatyard.

The River Clyde boat yard is based in Rothesay Dock Clydebank,the only boat yard in the upper Clyde.

Click HERE for the their web site.

Sparto

Having unloaded her cargo of oil at Finnart in Loch Long , Sparto makes her way back into the main shipping lane.

The coaster Wilson Heron is at anchor awaiting her pilot to take her to Glasgow

Cloch Point Searchlight Battery

The remains of a search light viewing platform that lies a few hundred yards from Cloch lighthouse.

Isle of Lewis

Isle of Lewis at James Watt Dock

MV Centaur

An advert from 1964 for the John Brown ship.

Custom House Greenock

With the coming of the Union in 1707, Scotland became subject to paying English duties. This proved to very unpopular and smuggling was rife.

Custom Houses were built in the main ports of Scotland, some of them being rather grand in design in order to symbolize the authority of the state

The Custom House at Greenock was built by William Burn in 1818 and is a fine building complete with Doric columns and portico, built next to the river it is still an imposing building.

USS Cole DDG 67

The second USS Cole (DDG-67) is an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer homeported in NS Norfolk, Virginia. The Cole is named in honor of Marine Sergeant Darrell S. Cole, a machine-gunner killed in action on Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945, during World War II. The ship was built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and was delivered to the Navy on 11 March 1996.

On 12 October 2000, the Cole was attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists who committed a suicide attack in the Yemeni port of Aden; seventeen sailors were killed and thirty-nine were injured.

She is seen in these pictures passing Gourock on her way to a NATO exercise.

HMS Smiter P272

Smiter is a coastal training craft p2000 class,she is affiliated with Glasgow University.

She is seen here at the launch of Defender.

Battler