River Clyde Photography

Sunday 24 January 2016

MV Catriona

MV Catriona, Caledionan Mac Brayne ferry seen at Ferguson's shipyard were she was built.

Saturday 23 January 2016

Sea Plane

Loch Lomond seaplane is a familiar sight on the Clyde,photographed from Lyle Hill as she heads back to Loch Lomond.

Thursday 21 January 2016

Monday 18 January 2016

Saturday 16 January 2016

Wednesday 13 January 2016

Monday 11 January 2016

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218 arriving in Glasgow before she started war games off the West coat of Scotland.

Saturday 9 January 2016

Eildh Anne

Eildh Anne departs Largs after landing her catch.

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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Sunday 24 January 2016

MV Catriona

Saturday 23 January 2016

Sea Plane

Thursday 21 January 2016

Waverley

Monday 18 January 2016

Lyle Hill

Saturday 16 January 2016

Port Glasgow

Wednesday 13 January 2016

Encounter

Monday 11 January 2016

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern F218

Saturday 9 January 2016

Eildh Anne

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