River Clyde Photography

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Mount Stuart

Mount Stuart,Clydeports pilot boat encountering bad weather.

Monday 6 January 2014

Pretty Ivy passing Greenock during a torrential down pour, interesting to note that the usual Svitzer tugs being busy elsewhere on the Clyde that help was sought from SD Dependable,a military tug from nearby Faslane.

Saturday 4 January 2014

Yeoman Bank

Yeoman Bank a large bulker making her way past Port Glasgow in poor weather conditions.

Friday 3 January 2014

MV Clansman

Clansman arriving at Ardrossan Harbour on the 2 Jan 2014,she arrived at 1700 from Oban to relieve MV Caledonian Isles for her winter refit.

Monday 30 December 2013

Bounder

Bounder passing Greenock on her way to gGasgow.

Scottish Ambulance Service

Scottish Ambulance Service helicopter.

Friday 27 December 2013

Largs

Coming ashore after a days sailing at Largs.

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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Tuesday 7 January 2014

Mount Stuart

Monday 6 January 2014

Pretty Ivy

Saturday 4 January 2014

Yeoman Bank

Friday 3 January 2014

MV Clansman

Monday 30 December 2013

Bounder

Scottish Ambulance Service

Friday 27 December 2013

Largs

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