River Clyde Photography

Wednesday 27 November 2019

Monday 25 November 2019

Argyll Flyer

Argyll Flyer sporting her new CalMac livery.

Sunday 24 November 2019

Thursday 21 November 2019

Tuesday 19 November 2019

Vangaurd Submarine

Trident submarine heading for Coulport Loch Long.

Monday 18 November 2019

Grena knutsen

Tanker heading for Loch Long and Finart oil terminal.

Saturday 16 November 2019

Hunter

Coast Gaurd boat which attended the Commonwealth Flotilla in 2014.

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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Wednesday 27 November 2019

Ranger

Monday 25 November 2019

Argyll Flyer

Sunday 24 November 2019

Ayton Cross

Thursday 21 November 2019

Waverley

Tuesday 19 November 2019

Vangaurd Submarine

Monday 18 November 2019

Grena knutsen

Saturday 16 November 2019

Hunter

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