River Clyde Photography

Friday 14 July 2023

HMS Penzance M106

Royal Navy mine sweeper HMS Penzance heading up to Glasgow on a rainy day.

TENACIOUS

Tenacious with The Waverley at Greenock Custom House.

Thursday 13 July 2023

Regal Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc, and is the second ship to sail for the cruise line under this name. Regal Princess was ordered on 17 February 2010 from Fincantieri and were constructed at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy, and debuted in 2014

HMS Northumberland (F238)

HMS Northumberland (F238) at anchor off Gourock.

Wednesday 12 July 2023

MV Coruisk

MV Coruisk passing Lismore Lighthouse.

Monday 10 July 2023

Waverley and CalMac Ferries

Waverley arriving at Largs with MV Loch Shira and MV Loch Riddon.

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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Friday 14 July 2023

HMS Penzance M106

TENACIOUS

Thursday 13 July 2023

Regal Princess

HMS Northumberland (F238)

Wednesday 12 July 2023

MV Coruisk

Monday 10 July 2023

Waverley and CalMac Ferries

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