Sound of Soay

Sound of Soay making her way to Gourock on a dark and windy afternoon.

Coruisk

CalMac's Courisk, which has been operating sailings on Argyll Ferries's Gourock to Dunoon passenger route collided with the piet at Dunoon on the 11 March 2014.
Her bow was damaged and was removed at James Watt Dock and taken to Fergusons shipbuilders for repair.

Forth Sentinal,Forth Jouster,Forth Gaurdsman.

Forth Sentinal,Forth Jouster,Forth Gaurdsman seen in James Watt Dock before seting off for the Isle of Arran to lay cables.

Westway Dock, River Cart

Westway Dock on the River Cart being dredged so that Steel Engineering can move larger loads down the Cart into the Clyde.

At work are the tugs Coastrunner, Regis 2 and Split-Hopper-Barge B303.

Beaver Bay

Clyde Marines tug Beaver Bay seen at Ardrossan Harbour.

HMC Valiant

HMC Valiant a Border Agency (customs) cutter.

Inchgreen Drydock

Inchgreen Drydock in Greenock is being used for construction of a ferry berthing extension for Ullapool Pier.
The 33-metre structure when built will be towed to the harbour .
The decision to build off site at Inchgreen  means  the ferry service can be maintained.

The extension is needed because the new 116-metre CalMac ferry MV Loch Seaforth which is due to arrive in August 2014  will replace the current ferry MV Isle of Lewis.

Puncher

Clyde Marines general service launch Puncher ,in the top pictures  she is seen acting as a line runner.

Valkyrie

Multi-purpose GRP-hulled research vessel built by Catapult Catamarans Marine project Limited of Southampton for Fugro EMU Limited of Southampton based on their Type 12 M CATAPULT 396 design. 12 metres x 4.8 metres and drawing around 1.1 metre depth. Tonnage approximately 17 tonnes.